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Author Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-

Title Indefensible weapons : the political and psychological case against nuclearism / Robert Jay Lifton, Richard Falk.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1982]
©1982

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  172.42 L722I    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 301 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface / Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk -- Acknowledgments -- section 1. Imagining the real / Robert Jay Lifton -- ch. 1. The world of the bomb -- ch. 2. Nuclear illusions -- ch. 3. Security - the ultimate psychologism -- ch. 4. Is Hiroshima our text? -- ch. 5. The bomb in our schools - and in Us -- ch. 6. The image of extinction -- ch. 7. A way of seeing -- ch. 8. A break in the human chain -- ch. 9. Nuclear fundamentalism -- ch. 10. On numbing and feeling -- ch. 11. Imagining the real -- section 2. Political anatomy of nuclearism / Richard Falk -- ch. 12. Taking stands -- ch. 13. Nuclearizing security -- ch. 14. Nuclear intentions -- ch. 15. Emergent nuclearism -- ch. 16. The Soviet factor : a "useful" enemy -- ch. 17. Passivity - the enemy of peace -- ch. 18. Constraining and liberating world pictures -- ch. 19. Obtain the possible : demand the impossible -- Conclusion : In darkness - toward light / Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk -- Appendix : Nuclear war's effect on the mind / Robert Jay Lifton and Kai Erikson -- References -- Index.
Subject Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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ISBN 0465032362
9780465032365
0465032370 (paperback)
9780465032372 (paperback)
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