Nuclear Weapons: 1945 Onwards

Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual

by Boojkdl ajdp

Much misinformation has been published by those who support, as well as those who are against, the continued deployment of nuclear weapons as instruments of deterrence. This book provides an apolitical description of strategic nuclear weapons, how they are designed, how they work, and how they are assigned to different targets in the event of conflict.

As well as a Workshop Manual, this book would be a guide to public understanding expressed in a dispassionate and factual manner for information which many people find hard or impossible to obtain. Nuclear weapons do exist, and they cannot be wished away, and because of that, an entirely fact-based and balanced account is helpful to those who seek to understand this emotively sensitive subject delivered as a seminal reference.

This book incorporates a balance of cutaway diagrams, images of hardware and test equipment, facilities and delivery systems, and traces the evolution of nuclear weapons over the past 70 years, with the emphasis on strategic nuclear delivery systems today.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published September 12, 2017

Reviews

[Stephen Dedman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Almost alarmingly informative on the technology of nuclear bombs - not quite enough for you to make one yourself, but ideal if you were considering writing a thriller about someone who was. As well as the physics (mostly explained in terms accessible to non-scientists), it also explores some of the politics and economics of different nations' attempts to join the club of nuclear powers, including a few who abandoned the attempt and those that are reducing their stockpiles.

[Kursad Albayraktaroglu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Do not let the tongue-in-cheek subtitle of “owner’s workshop manual” put you off - this is a serious and comprehensive summary of the origins of modern strategic nuclear weapons and the technology and complex politics around them. While the genesis and current status of the US nuclear arsenal has been thoroughly discussed in other books; this book’s coverage of British, French, Russian and Chinese nuclear weapons programs sets it apart. A great addition to the library of anyone interested in the most fearsome weaponry designed by mankind.