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	Bulk Discounts Buy... Save... 25 - 99 40% 100 - 249 45% 250 - 499 47% 500 - 999 50% 1000 or more 55% List Price: $26.00 Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies You save $10.40! Published: May 2006 ISBN: 1560258497, 9781560258490 Format Hardcover Publisher: Nation Books Carton Quantity: 26 (Minimum order):  25 Availability:: Usually Ships in 24 to 72 Hours Product Code: 9781560258490 Buy It New: Bulk savings applied at checkout. Please call if you have any questions or special needs. Qty:

Description   How did a fluke experiment in 1998, involving a used dental X-ray machine and a dubious sample of radioactive material, become the Pentagon's pet weapons project? It had been rejected by one of the Pentagon's most important advisory groups, but the Pentagon found an eccentric scientist who believed that a super "isomer" bomb could be built, and deliver the punch of a two-kiloton nuke packaged in a hand grenade. Ideologues at the Pentagon claimed that the Russians were in the process of building one of their own, and that the weapon was essential to the Pentagon's arsenal. Imaginary Weapons tells the story of the battle that ensued, pitting the nation's leading nuclear physicists against the Pentagon's top brass, and the military against nuclear arms control advocates, as funds and experiments for the "isomer weapon" miraculously reappeared even after the project had been shelved numerous times, even by Congress. This book also illuminates the dangerous trend that the Bush administration continues to follow of putting politics before science. The bomb is imaginary, and the only explosion produced by the "isomer weapon" will leave a hole in the nation's budget and a fallout of the nation's best and brightest scientists.   Related Products... The Secret History of the War on Cancer (LHAS Edi The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging The End of the Certain World: The Life and Scienc The Plot to Save the Planet (Paperback) [Bulk] Our Price: $16.77 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.97 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $10.47 for 25 - 99 copies Add Computers And Artificial Intelligence: (Hardcove Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Sc Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (P The Secret History of the War on Cancer: (Hardco Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $9.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.77 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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