SOME people trek to Machu Picchu, some dive on the Great Barrier Reef. Those of us interested in nuclear issues visit the monuments and precincts of the Bomb. Such are husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger. On their “nuclear family vacation”, they found the neighbourhoods seedy and the natives discouraged. The vast nuclear complexes of the US and former Soviet Union, having lost their cold war purpose, have gone astray, and no government has yet articulated a future for them more credible than their elimination.
As someone who writes about nuclear history, I found A Nuclear Family Vacation…
