Caldicott reveals how arms dealers have generated their profits by exploiting and promoting America's current military crisis. Focusing on the Pentagon;s resistance to nuclear disarmament, she details the Bush's administrations debt to the arms industry, the military's use of America's renewed fear of terrorism, and the danger represented by the country's nuclear arsenal.

The tragedy of wasted opportunities --2. The reality of nuclear war -- 3. It's a mad, mad world : nuclear scientists and the Pentagon play with deadly gadgets -- 4. Corporate madness and the death merchants -- 5. Manhattan II -- 6. Star wars : the story of national missile defense systems - 7. Space : the next American empire -- 8. Nuclear war in the Gulf and Kosovo -- 9. The Lockheed Martin Presidency and the star wars administration.