| View Larger Image | Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History | Hardcoverby James N. Gibson (Author)
| List Price: | $49.95 | | Price: | $36.46 | | You Save: | $13.49 (27%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. | | Edition: | illustrated editionth Edition | | Page Count: | 240 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2000 | | Sales Rank: | 375,439th |
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Product Description
This new book covers every nuclear delivery system the United States ever deployed. With few exceptions, each weapon and system is illustrated by either color or black and white photographs. Each weapon also comes with specifications and a history of its development, deployment and retirement (if retired). |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)
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Good book, title misleading by J. Janzen (Minneapolis, MN USA)  4 Stars
June 12, 2009
A good book with lots of nice photos. However, the title is a little misleading. The subject is nuclear weapon delivery systems, not the actual nuclear weapons themselves. So if you are looking for information about the actual nuclear weapon components, this book has almost nothing on that. If you want information on the delivery systems, rockets, planes, bomb casings, etc., then this is a good book.
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Typos -- yes. You will not care. Great book ! by Jon in Florida (Florida)  5 Stars
November 17, 2006
If you look closely, there are indeed typos.
I don't think you will notice, however.
The photos and captions alone make this book a "must buy."
You will not be disappointed.
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SO MANY NUKES! by Severin Olson (Hyattsville, Maryland United States) 4 Stars
February 26, 2005
This book truly taught me a good deal about our nuclear weapons inventory. We have had nuclear tipped artillery, mines and even depth charges! By the end I was ready to learn we had nuclear armed amusement park rides.
This book is a must for anyone interested in nuclear weapons and their deployment. I would have liked a discussion of how the military planned to use these devices, as I feel this would have explained more and given the book an added dimension.
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lots of typos by Jeremy Kuris (Washington, DC USA)  2 Stars
October 06, 2003
This book has lots of great photos. It also seems to have a lot of information, but there are so many editing problems that I am reluctant to trust its technical and historical information.While I was reading it, I found typesetting issues, and many spelling errors. I was trying to enjoy it, not proofread it, so I'm sure careful scrutiny would uncover even more. Page 191 has at least nine errors! They include: "thier" instead of "their", "their" instead of "there" (twice!), "ver" instead of "very", and "nublear ant-aircraft" instead of "nuclear anti-aircraft".I really wanted to like this book, but the errors are so numerous and distracting, that I ultimately have to consider it a defective product. If only they had used a spell-checker and a proofreader, this could have been a five-star book. As it stands, it is merely a photo album with some captions might be correct.
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