Sarah Scoles, Sarah Scoles

Gebundenes Buch

Countdown

The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons

Beschreibung

"FRESH, CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE: Most books on nuclear weapons are focused on the past, especially World War II and the Cold War. Scoles offers the first modern analysis of nuclear weaponry today that goes beyond just geopolitical consequences but cultural as well"--

Autor

Sarah Scoles is a Colorado-based science journalist, a contributing writer at Popular Science, and a senior contributor at Undark. Her work has appeared in publications like the New York Times, Wired, Scientific American, and others. She is also the author of the books Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers, and Astronomical Mindfulness. Her forthcoming book is called Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons. Her articles have won the American Geophysical Union's David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Writing (2021) and the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division's Popular Media Award (2019, 2020). Previously, she was an associate editor at Astronomy and a public education officer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bold Type Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 156mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781645030058
• ISBN-10: 1645030059
• Artikelnr.: 68505815