{"product_id":"war-stars-the-superweapon-and-the-american-imagination-9781558496514","title":"War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): H. Bruce Franklin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new and expanded edition of an already classic work, H. Bruce Franklin brings the epic story of the superweapon and the American imagination into the ominous twenty-first century, demonstrating its continuing importance both to comprehending our current predicament and to finding ways to escape from it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSweeping through two centuries of American culture and military history, Franklin traces the evolution of superweapons from Robert Fulton's eighteenth-century submarine through the strategic bomber, atomic bomb, and Star Wars to a twenty-first century dominated by \"weapons of mass destruction,\" real and imagined. Interweaving culture, science, technology, and history, he shows how and why the American pursuit of the ultimate defensive weapon--guaranteed to end all war and bring universal triumph to American ideals--has led our nation and the world into an epoch of terror and endless war.","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47584681001111,"sku":"9781558496514","price":3862.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781558496514.webp?v=1774957484","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/war-stars-the-superweapon-and-the-american-imagination-9781558496514","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}