War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination

By Howard Bruce Franklin

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558496513
• ISBN13: 9781558496514
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Level 1........

You know the feeling you get from a book that gets better and more interesting as you read it. This is one of those books. He is a very good writer. I listened to a Chomsky talk/interview who recommended the book. I thought SciFi was crap. But he showed it to be a kind of wonderful window of our thoughts, fears and hopes for the far or not so far future. Example after example of superweapons from 1798 - 1980's that were touted as the final weapon that would make war obsolete are exposed as fantasy. Now we face weapons that if used will make us obsolete. I must read......