Thu, Feb 15
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Sarah Scoles, Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. In Countdown, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers a different atomic reality: the nuclear age’s present. A co-presentation with Global Santa Fe.
Date, Time & Location
Feb 15, 2024, 6:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This event is co-sponsored by Global Santa Fe. Sarah Scoles will be in conversation with Jim Falk, Global Santa Fe's Program Chair
This will be an in-store conversation and live streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
Pre-order your copy of Countdown ($30, hardcover) from CW online here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226. Book publishes February 6.
About the Book
Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Despite that, conversations about these bombs generally often happen in past tense. Drawing from years of on-the-ground reporting at the nation's nuclear weapons labs, Scoles interrogates the idea that having nuclear weapons keeps us safe, deterring attacks and preventing radioactive warfare. She deftly assesses the existing nuclear apparatus in the United…