Empire and the Bomb
How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World

A concise history of how the US has used nuclear weapons to dominate the world.

Leading nuclear specialist and peace campaigner Joseph Gerson explains why atomic weapons were first built and used -- and how the U.S. uses them today to preserve its global empire. Gerson reveals how and why the U.S. made more than twenty threats of nuclear attack during the Cold War -- against Russia, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East. He shows how such theats continued under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and George W. Bush. The book concludes with an appeal for nuclear weapons abolition and an overview of the history of the anti-nuclear movement. Drawing from a wide range of sources, this fascinating and timely account shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to dominate the world.

1. Deadly Connections: Empire and Nuclear Weapons
2. First Nuclear Terrorism - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3. Post War Asia - Targeting Korea and China
4. The Cuban Missile Crisis - Prestige, Credibility, &
Power
5. Vietnam: Failures of Nuclear Diplomacy
6. The Middle East: Protecting "The Prize
7. Nukes and the New World Order - What We Say Goes - Part I
8. "Seven Minutes to Midnight" - What We Say Goes - Part II
9. Abolition or Annihilation
Notes
Bibliography
Index.