04044nam 2200565 a 450 991045533690332120200520144314.01-84964-304-0(CKB)1000000000802640(StDuBDS)AH22933592(SSID)ssj0000416746(PQKBManifestationID)11319939(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416746(PQKBWorkID)10437517(PQKB)10115935(MiAaPQ)EBC3386217(Au-PeEL)EBL3386217(CaPaEBR)ebr10479705(OCoLC)656260939(EXLCZ)99100000000080264020070917d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEmpire and the bomb[electronic resource] how the U.S. uses nuclear weapons to dominate the world /Joseph GersonLondon Pluto Press published in association with American Friends Service Committee20071 online resource (368 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-2494-0 0-7453-2495-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Deadly connections: empire and nuclear weapons -- First nuclear terrorism--Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Postwar Asia--targeting Korea and China -- The Cuban missile crisis--prestige, credibility, and power -- Vietnam: failures of nuclear diplomacy -- The Middle East: monopolizing "The prize" -- Nukes and the new world order--what we say goes -- "Romance of ruthlessness"--seven minutes to midnight -- Abolition or annihilation.'As Americans, we need to face up to our own reliance on nuclear intimidation. This is an important book for Americans of all political stripes to read.' Cynthia Enloe, author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire&quote;At a time when nuclear weapons are increasingly in the political spotlight, this book is essential reading ... Joseph Gerson has provided a work of the utmost importance: a key to understanding - and challenging - US global domination and its nuclear core.&quote; Kate Hudson, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament&quote;Brilliant. I have not read a more important book in many years. Gerson has uncovered the radioactive vein in our secret foreign policy. ... Gerson's work helps us understand why the likelihood of nuclear war is greater now than before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A terrific book.&quote; Daniel Ellsberg, former senior Pentagon official and co-author of The Pentagon Papers The United States is the only country to have dropped the atomic bomb. Since the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every U.S. president has threatened nuclear war.This concise history shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to bolster its imperial ambitions. Leading nuclear specialist and peace campaigner Joseph Gerson explains why atomic weapons were first built and used -- and how the U.S. uses them today to preserve its global empire. Gerson reveals how and why the U.S. made more than twenty threats of nuclear attack during the Cold War -- against Russia, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East. He shows how such threats continued under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and George W. Bush.The book concludes with an appeal for nuclear weapons abolition and an overview of the history of the anti-nuclear movement. Drawing from a wide range of sources, this fascinating and timely account shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to dominate the world.Nuclear warfareNuclear disarmamentUnited StatesMilitary policyElectronic books.Nuclear warfare.Nuclear disarmament.355.0217Gerson Joseph956822MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455336903321Empire and the bomb2167160UNINA