Helen Caldicott

Broschiertes Buch

The New Nuclear Danger

George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex

Beschreibung

This revised edition includes a new Introduction that outlines the costs of operation Iraqi Freedom, details the companies profiting from the war and subsequent reconstruction, and chronicles the rampant conflicts of interest among members of the Bush administration who also have a financial stake in weapons manufacturing.

Autor

The world's leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Dr. Helen Caldicott is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Both the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies' Home Journal have named her one of the Most Influential Women of the Twentieth Century. In 2001 she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, which later became Beyond Nuclear, in Washington, D.C. The author of The New Nuclear Danger, War in Heaven (with Craig Eisendrath), Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, and Loving This Planet and the editor of Crisis Without End (all published by The New Press), she is currently president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org. She divides her time between Australia and the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 141mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781565848788
• ISBN-10: 1565848780
• Artikelnr.: 11460435