THE NUCLEAR AGE : (Record no. 760372)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02436nam a22002057a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780241582862 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 327.1747 |
| Item number | PLO/N |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | PLOKHY,SERHII |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | THE NUCLEAR AGE : |
| Sub Title | AN EPIC RACE FOR ARMS POWER AND SURVIVAL / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | BY SERHII PLOKHY |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | UK : |
| Name of publisher | PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE , |
| Year of publication | 2025. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 422P. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. Prophecy 7<br/> 2. Fright 16<br/> 3. Nazis and Their Friends 28<br/> 4. Transatlantic Alliance 40<br/> 5. Manhattan Project 52<br/> 6. Unequal Partners 65<br/> 7. American Bomb 79<br/> 8. Stolen Secret 93<br/> 9. United Nations 105<br/> 10. Union Jack 117<br/> 11. Stalin’s Bomb 131<br/> 12. British Hurricane 143<br/> 13. Managing Fear 155<br/> 14. Super Bomb 168<br/> 15. Missile Gap 181<br/> 16. Bombe Atomique Copyrighted Material 195<br/>viiiContents<br/> 17. China Syndrome 206<br/> 18. Cuban Gamble 218<br/> 19. Banning the Bomb 229<br/> 20. Star of David 243<br/> 21. MAD Men 256<br/> 22. Smiling Buddha 270<br/> 23. Star Wars 283<br/> 24. The Fall of the Nuclear Colossus 296<br/> 25. Giving Up the Bomb 310<br/> 26. The Return of Fear 326<br/> 27. Preemptive War 340<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: 'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.'<br/><br/>While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a simmering and tense geopolitical landscape, events like the Chernobyl disaster and near-misses like the Cuban Missile Crisis showed that total destruction was only ever one malfunction, mistake, or miscommunication away. Now, as governments re-arm their nuclear arsenals, treaties designed to limit the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons fall away, and nuclear weapons come increasingly within reach of non-state actors, we are on the brink of a renaissance of the nuclear industry.<br/>In The Nuclear Age, acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy paints an intricate picture of a world governed by fear. From the first artificial splitting of the atom in 1917 and the race to create the first atomic bomb in World War II, through the fraught arms race of the Cold War, to the imperialism, neo-colonial motivation and wars being waged today, the threat posed by nuclear weapons is as pertinent as ever. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | IN ENGLISH |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | NON FICTION |
| -- | MILITARY HISTORY |
| -- | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
| -- | COLD WAR HISTORY |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | PLOKHY,SURHII |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home Library | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Dept. of Arabic | Dept. of Arabic | General Stacks | 05/06/2026 | 1999.00 | 327.1747 PLO/N | ARA11660 | 05/06/2026 | Book |