Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation

by Lynn Eden

Book Overview

Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war?U.S. bombing in World War II caused massive fire damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but later war plans took account only of damage from blast; they completely ignored damage from atomic firestorms. Recently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007CV4AG0
• ISBN13: 9780801472893
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"