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

[Steven Dapra]

May 25

         The text below ("In the spirit . . ." to 
"chose not to") is from the Book Description on 
Amazon.com.  It's probably taken from the dust 
cover of the book, or from the back cover if the book is a paperback.

Steven Dapra


At 02:43 AM 5/25/2013, you wrote:
>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
>  Release
>date: April 30, 2013 In the spirit of Dr."
>       New post on *nuclear-news*
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>History of Nuclear
>Folly<http://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/25/new-book-a-short-history-of-nuclear-folly/>
>by
>Christina MacPherson <http://nuclear-news.net/author/christinamacpherson/>
>
>*<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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