Death Dust – The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

Death DustThe Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs\nAuthor(s): William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood, Samuel Meyer, Hanna Notte\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503636668, 978-1503636668\nSynopsis\nThe postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonationthrough a series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt. The authors illuminate the historical drivers of and impediments to radiological weapons innovation. They also examine how new, dire geopolitical eventssuch as the war in Ukrainecould enco.