Rodric Braithwaite: Armageddon and Paranoia [2019] paperback Condition:New His decision to commit himself

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Rodric Braithwaite: Armageddon and Paranoia [2019] paperback Condition:New His decision to commit himselfIn 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