Much misinformation has been published by those who support, as well as
those who are against, the continued deployment of nuclear weapons as
instruments of deterrence. This book provides an apolitical description
of strategic nuclear weapons, how they are designed, how they work, and
how they are assigned to different targets in the event of conflict.
As well as a Workshop Manual, this book would be a guide to public
understanding expressed in a dispassionate and factual manner for
information which many people find hard or impossible to obtain. Nuclear
weapons do exist, and they cannot be wished away, and because of that,
an entirely fact-based and balanced account is helpful to those who seek
to understand this emotively sensitive subject delivered as a seminal
reference.
This book incorporates a balance of cutaway diagrams, images of hardware
and test equipment, facilities and delivery systems, and traces the
evolution of nuclear weapons over the past 70 years, with the emphasis
on strategic nuclear delivery systems today.