| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 142 pages cm) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-130) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; What This Book Is About; 1. Mankind's Cultural Split; 2. Science Pushes Us Over the Brink; 3. Five Lessons of the Nuclear Age; 4. Annihilation from Within; 5. Time to Get Serious; 6. Restoration; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index. |
| Summary |
Globalization guarantees the spread of new technologies, whether beneficial or destructive, and this proliferation reaches beyond North Korea, Iran, and other rogue states. Our greatest threat is a cunning tyrant who might gain a few weapons of mass destruction and annihilate a nation's government from within, assuming dictatorial power. The twentieth century offers vivid examples of tyrants who have exploited major national disasters by rallying violent followers and intimidating an entire nation. To explain how we have become so vulnerable, Fred Iklé turns to history. Some 250. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Security, International.
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Security, International. |
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects. |
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Terrorism.
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Terrorism. |
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Radicalism.
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Radicalism. |
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Nuclear disarmament.
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Nuclear disarmament. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Iklé, Fred Charles. Annihilation from within. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231139527 9780231139526 (DLC) 2006019331 (OCoLC)70219740 |
| ISBN |
9780231511407 (electronic book) |
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023151140X (electronic book) |
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9780231139526 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231139527 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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