Details the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for superiority in atomic weaponry since the inception of the Manhattan Project in 1939, and analyzes the danger of unleashing phenomenally destructive weapons upon the world.
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Details the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for superiority in atomic weaponry since the inception of the Manhattan Project in 1939, and analyzes the danger of unleashing phenomenally destructive weapons upon the world.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. (Nuclear warfare--Juvenile literature, World politics 1945-1989). A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
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Very good. [6], 139, [1] pages. Illustrations. Chronology. Further Reading. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Review slip laid in. Sidney Lens (1912-1986), also known by his birth name Sid Okun, was an American labor leader, political activist, and author, best known for his book, The Day Before Doomsday, which warns of the prospect of nuclear annihilation, published in 1977 by Doubleday. He also wrote a history of U.S. intervention abroad, The Forging of the American Empire, originally published in 1974 and republished in 2003 by Haymarket Books with a new introduction by Howard Zinn; and an autobiography, Unrepentant Radical. Formerly a member of Hugo Oehler's Revolutionary Workers League, Lens was active in retail worker unions in Chicago and in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. In 1967, he was among more than 500 writers and editors who signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay the 10% Vietnam War Tax surcharge proposed by president Johnson. Lens was an editor of The Progressive. In 1980, Lens was the Citizens Party (United States) candidate for United States Senate in Illinois. Details the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for superiority in atomic weaponry since the inception of the Manhattan Project in 1939, and analyzes the danger of unleashing phenomenally destructive weapons upon the world. "The Bomb" provides a comprehensive and extremely readable history of the world's march to nuclear catastrophe. The book's message is clear. The arms race has life and vigor beyond all reason, beyond all need, beyond all common sense. Informed and aroused citizens of the world, must assume leadership of global disarmament efforts. This book informs and arouses. It should be read by all who are concerned about the near certainty of nuclear war in their lifetime. Their survival, the survival of all mankind, is at stake. The author probes the politics behind the bomb, the attitudes and actions of government leaders and scientists toward the arms race. He tells of the many near misses when the US almost became embroiled in nuclear war, and gives a bird's-eye view of antinuclear protests.
