The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy
The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy
SKU: 9780241797624 • Barcode: 9780241797624

The Nuclear Age

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Book information

  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Cold wars and proxy conflicts
  • Genre / subject: Nuclear weapons
  • Author: Serhii Plokhy
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy is a history book for adult readers.

From the best-selling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to today On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: 'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a simmering and tense geopolitical landscape, events like the Chernobyl disaster and near-misses like the Cuban Missile Crisis showed that total destruction was only ever one malfunction, mistake, or miscommunication away.

Now, as governments re-arm their nuclear arsenals, treaties designed to limit the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons fall away, and nuclear weapons come increasingly within reach of non-state actors, we are on the brink of a renaissance of the nuclear industry.

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