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Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld

Sharon Weinberger

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Description:How did a fluke experiment in 1998, involving a used dental X-ray machine & a dubious sample of radioactive material, become the Pentagon's pet weapons project? It had been rejected by one of the Pentagon's most important advisory groups, but the Pentagon found an eccentric scientist who believed that a super isomer bomb could be built & deliver the punch of a two-kiloton nuke packaged in a hand grenade. Ideologues at the Pentagon claimed that the Russians were in the process of building one of their own & that the weapon was essential to the Pentagon's arsenal. Imaginary Weapons tells the story of the battle that ensued, pitting the nation's leading nuclear physicists against the Pentagon's top brass, & the military against nuclear arms control advocates, as funds & experiments for the "isomer weapon" miraculously reappeared even after the project had been shelved numerous times, even by Congress. This book also illuminates the dangerous trend that the Bush administration continues to follow of putting politics before science. The bomb is imaginary. The only explosion produced by the "isomer weapon" will leave a hole in the nation's budget & a fallout of the nation's best & brightest scientists.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld. To get started finding Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 276

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Nation Books

Release: 2006

ISBN: 1560258497

Description: How did a fluke experiment in 1998, involving a used dental X-ray machine & a dubious sample of radioactive material, become the Pentagon's pet weapons project? It had been rejected by one of the Pentagon's most important advisory groups, but the Pentagon found an eccentric scientist who believed that a super isomer bomb could be built & deliver the punch of a two-kiloton nuke packaged in a hand grenade. Ideologues at the Pentagon claimed that the Russians were in the process of building one of their own & that the weapon was essential to the Pentagon's arsenal. Imaginary Weapons tells the story of the battle that ensued, pitting the nation's leading nuclear physicists against the Pentagon's top brass, & the military against nuclear arms control advocates, as funds & experiments for the "isomer weapon" miraculously reappeared even after the project had been shelved numerous times, even by Congress. This book also illuminates the dangerous trend that the Bush administration continues to follow of putting politics before science. The bomb is imaginary. The only explosion produced by the "isomer weapon" will leave a hole in the nation's budget & a fallout of the nation's best & brightest scientists.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld. To get started finding Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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