Armageddon and Paranoia
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Bestselling author, former British diplomat and expert on Russia Rodric Braithwaite's gripping account of the intense rivalry between Russia and the West
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation and considers what this has done to the world.
There are few villains in this story: on both sides of the Iron Curtain, dedicated scientists cracked the secrets of nature, dutiful military men planned out possible manoeuvres and politicians wrestled with potentially intolerable decisions. Patriotic citizens acquiesced to the idea that their country needed the ultimate means of defence. Some tried to grapple with the unanswerable question: what end could possibly be served by such fearsome means? Those who protested went unheard. None of them wanted to start a nuclear war, but all of them were paranoid about what the other side might do. The danger of annihilation by accident or misjudgement has not been entirely absent since.
Rodric Braithwaite, author of bestsellers Moscow 1941 and Afgantsy, paints a vivid and detailed portrait of this intense period in history. Its implications are terrifyingly relevant today, as ignorant and thoughtless talk about nuclear war begins to spread once more.
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Bestselling author, former British diplomat and expert on Russia Rodric Braithwaite's gripping account of the intense rivalry between Russia and the West
In 1945, the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again. Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation and considers what this has done to the world.
There are few villains in this story: on both sides of the Iron Curtain, dedicated scientists cracked the secrets of nature, dutiful military men planned out possible manoeuvres and politicians wrestled with potentially intolerable decisions. Patriotic citizens acquiesced to the idea that their country needed the ultimate means of defence. Some tried to grapple with the unanswerable question: what end could possibly be served by such fearsome means? Those who protested went unheard. None of them wanted to start a nuclear war, but all of them were paranoid about what the other side might do. The danger of annihilation by accident or misjudgement has not been entirely absent since.
Rodric Braithwaite, author of bestsellers Moscow 1941 and Afgantsy, paints a vivid and detailed portrait of this intense period in history. Its implications are terrifyingly relevant today, as ignorant and thoughtless talk about nuclear war begins to spread once more.
9781781257210
The Nuclear Confrontation
1945; world war 2; nazis; USSR; atom bomb; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Fat Man; Little Boy; history; science; Iron Curtain; Bay of Pigs; Kennedy; scientists; military; politicians; Patriotism; nuclear war; Rodric Braithwaite; Moscow 1941; Afgantsy; donald trump; red button; Cold War; When the Wind Blows; Raymond Briggs; The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010; Peter Hennessy; Berlin Wall; 1989; The Book of Daniel; EL Doctorow; Nikita Khrushchev; Vienna Summit; Soviet Union; Communism; Capitalism; mutually assured destruction; Russia; America; the Rosenbergs; Truman Doctrine; bunkers; Armageddon; Berlin Blockade; NATO; Space race; Margaret Thatcher; Ronald Reagan; War with Russia; Ukraine; Russian invasion of Europe
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