The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons Free Audiobook Download by Richard Rhodes

In the past year, new nuclear power plants were brought online in China, India and France. With these developments we enter a new era of nuclear proliferation. The Twilight of the Bombs is an analysis of recent history: from the Cold War to the Iranian Revolution to 9/11; from George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" to Barack Obama's "Nuclear Security Summit."

Robertson Dean is a professor at the University of New Hampshire and the founder of The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HIIDDS). In his book, Rhodes talks about how nuclear weapons have played a pivotal role in the history of civilization. However, because of their destructive nature, they are set to be taken out in the near future.

The Twilight of the Bombs is the first book in a trilogy that brilliantly covers the history of nuclear weapons. The author, Richard Rhodes, presents to us in a timeline fashion the history of nuclear weapons with far more detail than what we have been used to hearing in previous generations. From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Cold War tests and President John F. Kennedy's famous "We will also refuse to go gently into that good night," we learn about each era and its effects on global security and peace.

The "Twilight of the Bombs" is a concise history of nuclear weapons since their invention until their recent use by North Korea and Russia. The book's author, Richard Rhodes, seeks to make readers understand the history of nuclear weapons without any technical jargon so that it can be appreciated by a larger audience.

The Twilight of the Bombs captures a watershed moment in modern history as the world learns that we are living in an age of nuclear weapons. As one of the most important thinkers on nuclear weapons, Richard Rhodes gives us a moving and deeply honest account of our shared dilemma and explores how we might find a way out.