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Synopsis
A collection of short stories and essays, the essays focusing for the most part on WWII and the atomic bomb.
Review
A really nice read. I especially liked How to Be a Survivor, Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon, and Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You.
Table of contents
- Life-Line
- Successful Operation
- Blowups Happen
- Solution Unsatisfactory
- The Last Days of the United States
- How to Be a Survivor
- Pie from the Sky
- They Do It with Mirrors
- Free Men
- No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying—
- A Bathroom of Her Own
- On the Slopes of Vesuvius
- Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon
- Pandora's Box
- Where To?
- Cliff and the Calories
- Ray Guns and Rocket Ships
- The Third Millennium Opens
- Who Are the Heirs of Patrick Henry?
- "Pravda" Means "Truth"
- Inside Intourist
- Searchlight
- The Pragmatics of Patriotism
- Paul Dirac, Antimatter, and You
- Larger than Life
- Spinoff
- The Happy Days Ahead