Weapons of Mass Destruction

A history of weapons of mass destruction from the First World War to the Gulf War - and beyond.

Describes the world we live in, the evils we have to fight CONTEMPORARY REVIEW

The list is endless, the facts mind-boggling, the potential horror terrifying - a compelling page-turner GUN MART

When Tom Lehrer sang Well all go together when we go, the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust: the ultimate endgame of every Cold War powerplay. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea are building weapons of mass destruction. The next live Scud missile launch could signal the next Hiroshima.

Robert Hutchinson investigates the history of weapons of mass destruction, from biological warfare during World War I to the atomic weapons of World War II and the Cold War. He reveals that Russia did indeed build the Doomsday nuclear missile system featured in DR STRANGELOVE, but not until the 1980s: and it is still switched on! Chemical weapons remain the poor mans nuke. And as the attack on the Tokyo subway demonstrated, weapons of mass destruction are now available to terrorist organizations as well as rogue nation states.