[ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] New Book: A Short History of Nuclear Folly

[Roger Helbig]

I really doubt that Nazi scientists knew how to and had the capability to
make an atomic weapon but "chose" not to.  I wonder what other fiction that
Herzog might have buried in this book.  Has anyone had the opportunity to
read it?

Roger Helbig

(see last line of the following news release)

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Subject: [New post] New Book: A Short History of Nuclear Folly
   Christina MacPherson posted: "A Short History of Nuclear
Folly [Hardcover]
http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nuclear-Folly/dp/1612191738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369261455&sr=8-1&keywords=short+history+of+nuclear+folly
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date: April 30, 2013 In the spirit of Dr."
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*<http://antinuclearinfo.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/book-nuclear-folly.gif>A
Short History of Nuclear Folly [Hardcover]
http://www.amazon.com/A-Short-History-Nuclear-Folly/dp/1612191738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369261455&sr=8-1&keywords=short+history+of+nuclear+folly
  *Release date: April 30, 2013
*In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic
people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up
and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with
catastrophe* Rudolph
Herzog, the acclaimed author of *Dead Funny*, presents a devastating
account of history’s most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From
the rarely-discussed nightmare of “Broken Arrows” (40 nuclear weapons lost
during the Cold War) to “Operation Plowshare” (a proposal to use nuclear
bombs for large engineering projects, such as a the construction of a
second Panama Canal using 300 H-Bombs), Herzog focuses in on long-forgotten
nuclear projects that nearly led to disaster.

In an unprecedented people’s history, Herzog digs deep into archives,
interviews nuclear scientists, and collects dozens of rare photos. He
explores the “accidental” drop of a Nagasaki-type bomb on a train
conductor’s home, the implanting of plutonium into patients’ hearts, and
the invention of wild tactical nukes, including weapons designed to kill
enemy astronauts.

Told in a riveting narrative voice, Herzog—the son of filmmaker Werner
Herzog—also draws on childhood memories of the final period of the Cold War
in Germany, the country once seen as the nuclear battleground for NATO and
the Warsaw Pact countries, and discusses evidence that Nazi scientists knew
how to make atomic weaponry . . . and chose not to.
  *Christina MacPherson<http://nuclear-news.net/author/christinamacpherson/>
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