Eve of Destruction (eBook)

The inside story of our dangerous nuclear world

John Hughes-Wilson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
304 Seiten
John Blake (Verlag)
978-1-78946-338-5 (ISBN)

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'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered' -- US President Harry S. TrumanTruman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those military attacks, along with the disasters at the Fukashima and Chernobyl nuclear reactors, might immediately spring to mind at the mention of nuclear destruction, but the vast majority of the events recorded in this book are entirely unknown to most people. This book records the facts - many of them still shrouded in secrecy - which show a worrying truth: we have teetered precariously on the brink of Armageddon far more frequently than the general public realises.Since that first and last atomic war in 1945, there have been a terrifying number of nuclear accidents and mishaps, from the careless or accidental to the genuinely intentional and only narrowly averted. Despite the catastrophic nature of any nuclear conflict, we have come to the very borders of such a situation ten times since the 1960s. Most people know about the Cuba Missile Crisis, and a few about Operation Able Archer in 1984, which, if anything, was even more frightening than Cuba, but there have been eight other occasions that might easily have toppled over into outright war. These were potential conflicts; but there have been other accidents, such as the reactor meltdown at the nuclear generating plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, in 1979, or the 'Palomares Incident' in 1966, when a USAF B-52 bomber crashed after a mid-air collision, dropping four hydrogen bombs on Spanish soil . . .Eve of Destruction is a warning from history - recent history. It is a call to sit up and listen, and to take note of the very real danger of nuclear catastrophe. It is a timely and important book because, after all, the future of our planet has to concern us all.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: atomic bomb • Atomic bombing of Japan, August 1945 • Atomic bombing of Japan, August 1945 nuclear warfare Cold War MAD (mutually assured destruction) • battlefield nuclear weapons • Bikini Atoll • Bikini Atoll and other nuclear tests • Bikini Atoll and other nuclear tests reduction programmes rogue states ‘dirty bombs’ international terrorism • Bikini Atoll and other nuclear tests weapons reduction programmes rogue states • Chernobyl • Chernobyl Fukushima loss of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk • Cold War • Cruise Missiles • cruise missiles battlefield nuclear weapons NATO vs Warsaw Pact defence of Europe • cuban missile crisis • defence of Europe • ‘dirty bombs’ • dirty bombs • flash burns • Fukishima • Fukushima • Fukushima loss of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk Polaris and Trident missiles nuclear bombers • Hiroshima • Hiroshima Nagasaki radiation VJ Day • international terrorisim • International Terrorism • Japanese surrender, 1945 • loss of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk • MAD (mutually assured destruction) • Nagasaki • Nagisaki • NATO vs Warsaw Pact • nuclear bombers • Nuclear Deterrence • nuclear deterrence Cuban Missile Crisis Palomares Incident Three Mile Island • nuclear deterrence Cuban Missile Crisis Palomares Incident Three Mile Island Chernobyl • Nuclear War • Nuclear warfare • nuclear warfare the Cold War MAD (mutually assured destruction) • nuclear weapons reduction programmes • Palomares Incident • Polaris and |Trident missiles • Polaris and Trident missiles nuclear bombers cruise missiles battlefield nuclear weapons NATO vs Warsaw Pact, Europe • Radiation • radiation sickness • Rainbow Warrior • Rainbow Warrior international terrorisim Hiroshima Nagasaki radiation ‘dirty bombs’ • Rogue States • seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War • seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War Japanese surrender, 1945 • The Cold War • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Nicole Perlroth Ukraine Russia Putin • Three Mile Island • UKAUS nuclear-submarine pact 2021 • VJ Day • VJ Day UKAUS nuclear-submarine pact 2021 flash burns radiation sickness
• ISBN-10: 1-78946-338-6 / 1789463386
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78946-338-5 / 9781789463385