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Información de la obraArmageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation since 1945 por Rodric Braithwaite
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A brilliant overview of Western and Soviet nuclear strategy, mutually assured destruction, and the instruments thereof. It is not so much about the timeline and history of events as so much looking at how these occur within the grand scheme and picture of the issue and time. Very clear on strategic thinking (and lack of it) and very good on discussion of agendas. In addition, it has a fair mindedness which is admirable. In places, it can be humorous but no inappropriately so. I enjoyed it. To be recommended. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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