Avoiding Apocalypse (eBook)

How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War

Jeff Colvin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
216 Seiten
John Hunt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-80341-199-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the story of the astonishing sequence of events set in motion by the scientists' boycott of the Soviet Union.

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Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists' boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists' boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: history, scientists ended the Cold War, books on scientists ending the Cold War, political history, politics, Russia, the Soviet Union, books on Russia, books on the Soviet Union, the Cold War, books on the Cold War, scientists, Soviet scientists, Russian scientists, the scientific community, nuclear science, nuclear weapons, political science, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, economic history, social history, global nuclear war, science and technology, Spanish conquest, the Inca Empire
• ISBN-10: 1-80341-199-6 / 1803411996
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80341-199-6 / 9781803411996