Serhii Plokhy

The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 era's inauguration was answered 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 bombor two bombs: atomic and hydrogen.

In The Nuclear Age, Serhii Plokhy, one of our preeminent Cold War historians, reveals the global failure to reach meaningful nuclear arms treaties and explores why governments acquire and stockpile nuclear weapons. Today, Russia, China, and North Korea threaten nuclear aggression; India and Pakistan are locked in ongoing nuclear competition; and more countries than eversuch as Iranhave come within perilous reach of acquiring nuclear arms. The Nuclear Age exposes the fear that governs our era of rearmament as the danger of nuclear war remains imminent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324051183
• Artikelnr.: 73265481

Autorenporträt

Serhii Plokhy is a professor of Ukrainian history and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Author of Chernobyl Roulette, he is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.