Garrison, Dee
Professor of History and Women's Studies, Rutgers University (Emeritus)
Print publication date: 2006 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518319-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183191.003.0002
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-518319-1
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183191.003.0002
Prologue The H-Bomb Changes Everything
This prologue outlines how the advent of hydrogen weapons transformed the practice of war. It explains why modern nuclear weapons cannot be compared with those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It then discusses the effects of a nuclear explosion and life after a nuclear war.
Keywords: war, hydrogen bomb, nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, nuclear war
Keywords: war, hydrogen bomb, nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, nuclear war
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195183191.003.0002
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