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Warum hat der Dritte Weltkrieg nicht stattgefunden? Das ist die Leitfrage des vorliegenden Buches. Es beschreibt die Rolle der apokalyptischen Phantasie, die sich und uns das Schlimmste ausmalt, um es zu verhüten. Dabei erleben wir die Einbildungskraft zunächst auf Aufholjagd. Der Erste Weltkrieg war als totaler Krieg ein nie dagewesenes Ereignis, das erst in den Raum des Vor- und Darstellbaren ineintransportiert werden mußte. Das leistete insbesondere die deutsche und englische Kriegsdichtung, die gleichsam als Augenzeugenbericht direkt auf dem Kriegsschauplatz entstand, und die spätere Aufarbeitung im Roman (Im Westen nichts Neues) und Kino (Westfront). Zur Verhinderung des Zweiten Weltkriegs reichten die so aufgebauten ästhetischen Widerstandspotentiale allerdings nicht aus. Erst der sich in Reaktion auf die neuerliche Erfahrung entgrenzter Gewalt ausbildende Darstellungsmodus des schwarzen Humors (Catch-22, Dr. Strangelove) war effektiver. Die entsprechend trostlose, doch fieberhafte und multimediale Ausmalung des atomaren Weltuntergangs, die Welle (post)apokalyptischer Phantasien in den Romanen, Filmen, Theaterstücken, Songs insbesondere der 1970er und 1980er Jahre, so eine zentrale These der Untersuchung, hat ihn verhindert. Einen Grund zum Feiern gibt es trotzdem nicht. Die Arsenale sind weiterhin gefüllt. Auch die Militärstrategen sind phantasiebegabt und manövrieren ohne Unterlaß. Der Kampf der Kriegsspiele und Simulationen geht weiter.

Nuclear warfare --- Deterrence (Strategy) --- World War III. --- Nuclear warfare in literature. --- Art and nuclear warfare. --- Art and atomic warfare --- Nuclear warfare and art --- Third World War --- World politics --- Military policy --- Psychology, Military --- Strategy --- First strike (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear crisis stability --- Atomic warfare and society --- Social aspects. --- Friedensforschung --- Konfliktlösung --- Kulturgeschichte --- Kulturwissenschaft --- Sozialwissenschaft --- Sozialgeschichte --- Guerre nucléaire --- Dans la littérature

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Military assistance, American --- Nuclear warfare --- Safety measures --- International cooperation. --- United States --- Germany --- Military relations --- Military relations

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This report reviews and updates the 2002 National Research Council report, Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This report also assesses various topics, including: the plans to maintain the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile without nuclear-explosion testing; the U.S. capability to detect, locate, and identify nuclear explosions; commitments necessary to sustain the stockpile and the U.S. and international monitoring systems; and potential technical advances countries could achieve through evasive testing and unconstrained testing. Sustaining these technical capabilities will require action by the National Nuclear Security Administration, with the support of others, on a strong scientific and engineering base maintained through a continuing dynamic of experiments linked with analysis, a vigorous surveillance program, adequate ratio of performance margins to uncertainties. This report also emphasizes the use of modernized production facilities and a competent and capable workforce with a broad base of nuclear security expertise.

Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear weapons --- Nuclear arms control. --- Nuclear weapons control --- Arms control --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare --- Verification of nuclear arms control --- Verification. --- Testing --- Detection --- Research. --- Testing. --- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty --- Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty --- CTBT

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Nuclear weapons. --- Radioactive fallout. --- Dust, Radioactive --- Fallout, Radioactive --- Radioactive dust --- Atomic bomb --- Fallout shelters --- Fission products --- Hydrogen bomb --- Nuclear energy and meteorology --- Radioactive pollution --- Radioactive pollution of the atmosphere --- Radioactive substances --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare

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On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to renounce the weaponry he had once worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethe's early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle. As Silvan Schweber follows Bethe from his childhood in Germany, to laboratories in Italy and England, and on to Cornell University, he shows how these differing environments were reflected in the kind of physics Bethe produced. Many of the young quantum physicists in the 1930's, including Bethe, had Jewish roots, and Schweber considers how Liberal Judaism in Germany helps explain their remarkable contributions. A portrait emerges of a man whose strategy for staying on top of a deeply hierarchical field was to tackle only those problems he knew he could solve. Bethe's emotional maturation was shaped by his father and by two women of Jewish background: his overly possessive mother and his wife, who would later serve as an ethical touchstone during the turbulent years he spent designing nuclear bombs. Situating Bethe in the context of the various communities where he worked, Schweber provides a full picture of prewar developments in physics that changed the modern world, and of a scientist shaped by the unprecedented moral dilemmas those developments in turn created.

Atomic bomb --- Nuclear physicists --- Nuclear warfare --- Nuclear weapons --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology. --- Atomic warfare --- CBR warfare --- Nuclear strategy --- Nuclear war --- Thermonuclear warfare --- War --- Nuclear crisis control --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- A-bomb --- Atom bomb --- Bombs --- Physicists --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Bethe, Hans A. --- Political and social views. --- Manhattan Project (U.S.) --- Bethe, H. A. --- Bete, G., --- United States. --- Bethe, Hans Albrecht,