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Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
Bloomsbury USA
June 2008
On Sale: June 10, 2008
336 pages ISBN: 1596913789 EAN: 9781596913783 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Two Washington, D.C., defense reporters do for nukes what
Sarah Vowell did for presidential assassinations in this
fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of nuclear weaponry.
In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists
Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge hit the open road to
explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Along the
way, they answer the questions most nuclear tourists don’t
get to ask: Are nuclear weapons still on hair-trigger
alert? Is there such a thing as a suitcase nuke? Is Iran
really building the bomb? Together, Weinberger and Hodge
visit top-secret locations like the Isfahan Uranium
Conversion Facility in Iran, the United States’ Kwajalein
military outpost in the Marshall Islands, the Y-12 facility
in Tennessee, and “Site R,” a bunker known as
the “Underground Pentagon,” rumored to be Vice President
Cheney’s personal “undisclosed location” of choice. Their
atomic road trip reveals plans to revitalize the U.S.
nuclear arsenal, even as the United States pushes other
countries to disarm. Weaving together travel writing with
world-changing events, A Nuclear Family Vacation unearths
unknown—and often quite entertaining—stories about the
nuclear world.
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