I'm fascinating and terrified by atomic weapons, so a glossy coffee table boom of moody atomic weapons should be right up my alley. The opening has a really nice quick summary of the history and consequences of preparing for nuclear war if you don't have the patience for Richard Rhodes. Yet the actual photographs are mostly not up to the challenges of the material. Only one picture, of the underside of a Titan II missile nozzle, really provoked any sense of the technological sublime.