Makes accessible and dramatic a subject that may, if the human race is unlucky, come to be the most critical of the twenty-first century Financial Times Formidable talent ... a journalist whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective The New York Times One of America's most celebrated investigative journalists Rod Liddle Essential reading ... a dispassionate, devastating account of the planet's recent nuclear history. Zadie Smith Beautifully written, as lean, as taut, as frigidly poised as anything you will read this year ... Langewiesche is a sublime writer, everyone should read this book New Statesman

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