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Shame: Confessionas of the Father of the Neutron Bomb

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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

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Paperback, 472 pages
Published August 1st 2000 by Xlibris Corporation (first published June 22nd 2000)
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Gwern
Jul 15, 2013 Gwern added it
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
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Brendan  McAuliffe
This is 30 years old now, but has some useless information. This guy also had the idea for what ( now ) is the ' flash - bang ' grenade ( very popular ) He suggested the idea for use in Vietnam , but , it wasn't put into use because it was ' inhumane ' ...
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