Book Review: A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 19451963

Publication Date
Volume
43
Issue
1
Start Page
63
Author(s)
Mark L. Maiello
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Abstract
It would seem obvious why the United States performed several decades of nuclear testing but until reading this book, how the testing itself changed American thinking on nuclear weapons may not have been as clear. The dynamic interplay of politics and science brought constant change that ultimately made nuclear testing, at first a normal choice for nuclear security, into an illegitimate option. How each nuclear test series influenced this transformation away from the normalcy of testing is the goal of the authors, both of whom are from Australian centers of learning.
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