Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)Amazon.com has an inventory of over two million books. If I had to choose the single most important book, the one book I would recommend to ANYONE, I would say that this is it.
Dr. Helen Caldicott is an Australian pediatrician and human survival activist. She is frequently on the short list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. As of the day I'm writing this, she hasn't quite won it yet. I personally think it's just a matter of time before she does.
Would you say that you have a really rock-solid, thorough, complete understanding of the nuclear threat in today's world? Probably not. The topic has had a far lower profile than it once did, since the end of the Cold War. Well, don't you think you ought to consider updating your understanding? This book is user-friendly, it's timely, and it's EXTREMELY informative.
You should buy this book for Chapter Two alone. When's the last time you read anything about nuclear winter, written by someone who actually knows what they're talking about? Don't you think you should be well-informed about the topic? How about accidental nuclear war? Did you know we came within less than 3 minutes of a major, accidental exchange of nuclear missiles, on January 29, 1995? How good an understanding of fallout do you really have? What about its specific medical consequences? As a voter and a taxpayer, don't you think you owe it to yourself, to your children, and to ME (and all the rest of humanity, obviously) to be as well-informed about these topics as possible?!
The bulk of this book is devoted to discussing the often incestuous relationships between major defense contractors and our national government. Dr. Caldicott illuminatingly describes how nuclear policy can be not only influenced, but actually formed, directed, and driven by the extremely well-funded corporate forces of our arms establishment. She makes a number of excellent points about the dangers inherent in this situation. I will let you discover her brilliant observations for yourself.
Even if you don't expect to agree with her views, you should at least hear Dr. Caldicott out. If you disagree with her, that's your right, but at least listen to what she has to say. In a totally non-partisan spirit, she also provides four helpful appendices, which I imagine people of any political stripe would find to be informative and helpful. These appendices include A.)Major U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Makers; B.)U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Control Centers and Government Authorities; C.)Locations of the Majority of Usable U.S. Nuclear Weapons; and D.)Major Antinuclear Organizations in the United States, Great Britain, and Russia.
If you value being informed about matters of life and death, I recommend that you also seek out "The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War," by Carl Sagan and Paul Ehrlich. Another user-friendly, informative book, which assumes no prior knowledge or scientific background, is "Planet Earth in Jeopardy: Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War," by Lydia Dotto.
But again, the most important book on the topic, and the one I hope you ask all your friends, family and neighbors to read, is "The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex," by Dr. Helen Caldicott. Please buy it, and above all, please try to understand what Dr. Caldicott has to say to us all.
Click Here to see more reviews about: The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex, Revised and Updated Edition
Get 26% OFF
0 comments:
Post a Comment