Overview

This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has changed our lives since.

Historical Context and Key Issues

Dr Heuser sets these events in their historical context and tackles key issues about the effect of nuclear weapons on modern attitudes to conflict, and on the ethics of warfare.

Approach and Perspective

Duckling nothing, she demystifies the subject, seeing the bomb not as something unique and paralysing, but as an integral part of the strategic and moral context of our time.

Audience

For a wide multidisciplinary and general readership.