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Shame: Confessionas of the Father of the Neutron Bomb
by
Sam Cohen
It's very rare for any single book to really stand out in terms of many crucially important unvarnished first-hand historical `reality checks'. Sam Cohen's book Shame is one of those few remarkable exceptions. The principle themes and characteristics of Sam's book are: 1.
It's an inspiring story of dogged triumph over considerable childhood psychological torment and medical
...morePaperback, 472 pages
Published
August 1st 2000
by Xlibris Corporation
(first published June 22nd 2000)
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Jul 15, 2013
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It's hard to judge this one without more historical knowledge than I have.
There's a lot of things to dislike.
Cohen has a massive chip on his shoulder about the neutron bomb and how it was misunderstood which pops up every other page (but after reading the Wikipedia article, I can't say he is wrong to be aggravated about portrayals of it - why *is* a neutron bomb so horrible? Dead is dead, and limited wars fought with 1kt neutron bombs which can't affect much past 1400 meters with minimal fallout ...more
There's a lot of things to dislike.
Cohen has a massive chip on his shoulder about the neutron bomb and how it was misunderstood which pops up every other page (but after reading the Wikipedia article, I can't say he is wrong to be aggravated about portrayals of it - why *is* a neutron bomb so horrible? Dead is dead, and limited wars fought with 1kt neutron bombs which can't affect much past 1400 meters with minimal fallout ...more
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