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Giving Nuclear Weaponry to Third World Countries |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: A.G. Gancarski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,279 Words, 7,963 Characters |
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THE ATOMIC BAZAAR: THE RISE OF THE NUCLEAR POOR
By William Langewiesche
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22, 179 pages
If you grew up in the United States in the era after World War II, you undoubtedly came into contact with music and movies that attempted to evoke the horrors of nuclear holocaust. From jazzbo Sun Ra's iconic and unquotable Nuclear War, to films ranging from Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove to the 1980s TV movie The Day After, it is impossible to consider American popular culture for any length of time without coming across some reference to nuclear annihilation.
Vanity Fair international editor William Langewiesche begins The Atomic Bazaar, his sixth book, with this very sort of description. He describes the dropping of the 1945 ...
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...ome to consider how Washington can use its power and influence more realistically, in an attempt to vouchsafe its prerogatives in the increasingly challenging realm of foreign policy. The Atomic Bazaar and its straight talk about the global nuclear race, certainly provides fodder for that all-important and seemingly unavoidable discussion.
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