TY - BOOK AU - Gerson,Joseph TI - Empire and the bomb : how the U S uses nuclear weapons to dominate the world SN - 9780745324944 AV - U263 .G47 2007 U1 - 355.0217 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Pluto KW - Nuclear warfare KW - Nuclear disarmament KW - United States KW - Military policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Deadly connections: empire and nuclear weapons -- First nuclear terrorism--Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Postwar Asia--targeting Korea and China -- The Cuban missile crisis--prestige, credibility, and power -- Vietnam: failures of nuclear diplomacy -- The Middle East: monopolizing "The prize" -- Nukes and the new world order--what we say goes -- "Romance of ruthlessness"--seven minutes to midnight -- Abolition or annihilation ER -