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A review by gregbrown
Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons by Richard Rhodes
4.0
Rhodes' last book on nuclear weapons and proliferation, and necessarily a little more scattershot than his previous work but still an excellent read.
Iraq leads and finishes the story—both their earlier abandoned efforts at a bomb, and the Bush administration ginning up WMD fears to sell an invasion in 2003—but Rhodes also covers securing the USSR's weapons after breakup, along with weapons programs in South Africa, North Korea, and (tangentially) a few other states. Would be well-supplemented by Hersh's The Samson Option about Israel's weapons program.
Iraq leads and finishes the story—both their earlier abandoned efforts at a bomb, and the Bush administration ginning up WMD fears to sell an invasion in 2003—but Rhodes also covers securing the USSR's weapons after breakup, along with weapons programs in South Africa, North Korea, and (tangentially) a few other states. Would be well-supplemented by Hersh's The Samson Option about Israel's weapons program.