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The Nuclear Age

লেখক / Author: Serhii Plokhy

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A sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to today’s rush to stockpile nuclear weapons. The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Since then, the era of the atom has become the age of the bomb?or two bombs: atomic and hydrogen. In The Nuclear Age, Serhii Plokhy, one of our preeminent Cold War historians, explores why governments have acquired and stockpiled nuclear weapons and reveals the global failure to reach meaningful nuclear arms treaties. Plokhy shows how, since the Cuban…

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Pages: 432

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781324051183

ISBN-10: 1324051183