TY - CHAP
T1 - Nuclear Weapons and Power in the 21st Century
AU - Frühling, Stephan
AU - O’Neil, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - On 16 July 1945, the nuclear age was heralded by the successful Trinity test explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer later wrote that the sheer force of this new weapon made him think of the Bhagavad Gita verse “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” (Hijiya 2000: 123–167). Villains in countless movies seek nuclear weapons for their evil schemes, and only the philosopher’s stone and other imaginary items rival them as sources and symbols of power in popular imagination. During the Cold War, their mere existence seemed to threaten the survival not only of opposing armies, but of civilization itself.
AB - On 16 July 1945, the nuclear age was heralded by the successful Trinity test explosion at Alamogordo, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer later wrote that the sheer force of this new weapon made him think of the Bhagavad Gita verse “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” (Hijiya 2000: 123–167). Villains in countless movies seek nuclear weapons for their evil schemes, and only the philosopher’s stone and other imaginary items rival them as sources and symbols of power in popular imagination. During the Cold War, their mere existence seemed to threaten the survival not only of opposing armies, but of civilization itself.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85031418582
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-25082-8_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-25082-8_5
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783642250811
T3 - Global Power Shift
SP - 81
EP - 95
BT - Power in the 21st Century
A2 - Fels, Enrico
A2 - Kremer, Jan-Frederik
A2 - Kronenberg, Katharina
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
ER -