TY - BOOK AU - Gerson,Joseph ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Empire and the bomb: how the U.S. uses nuclear weapons to dominate the world AV - U263 .G47 2007eb U1 - 355.0217 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Pluto Press published in association with American Friends Service Committee KW - Nuclear warfare KW - Nuclear disarmament KW - United States KW - Military policy KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10479705 ER -