The nuclear express : a political history of the bomb and its proliferation / Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Big news: fission releases neutrons! -- Los Alamos: a first, but not the last -- The raids on Japan -- The U.S.S.R. and the United Kingdom: unintended partners -- First attempts at controls -- France and Israel: the apprentices -- China breaks the European cartel -- Nuclear maturity comes to the little three -- Struggling with the barn door -- Changes of state in the Mideast and South Asia -- South Africa -- The Soviet Union -- The once-nuclear Soviet republics -- China's decade of nuclear transparency -- The Fakirs: India, Pakistan, and North Korea -- Fingerprints -- Star and crescent rising -- George's-Antoine Kurtz is alive and well -- Why?