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Chargement... Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956par David Holloway
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Solid, well-researched and compellingly readable. ( ) Absolutely wonderful book on a remarkably fascinating topic. Holloway makes excellent use of the information made available after the fall of the USSR. The joy of Holloway's telling of the Soviet bomb project is that it is completely scientist centric, describing what it was like to makes discoveries in the highly politicized environment of Stalin's Russia. While Holloway is very honest about the role that spying played in expiditing the bomb for the Soviets, he is equally honest about how little the Soviet scientists themselves were aware of the information that the generals, and a few select scientists had. The role of those who were informed was not to dictate what should be done, but rather to steer spontaneously generated discussion towards the proven (i.e., American) path. Critical reading for anyone interested in the history of the atom bomb. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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For forty years the Soviet-American nuclear arms race dominated world politics, yet the Soviet nuclear establishment was shrouded in secrecy. Now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union has collapsed, it is possible to answer questions that have intrigued policymakers and the public for years. How did the Soviet Union build its atomic and hydrogen bombs? What role did espionage play? How did the American atomic monopoly affect Stalin's foreign policy? What was the relationship between Soviet nuclear scientists and the country's political leaders? This spellbinding book answers these questions by tracing the history of Soviet nuclear policy from developments in physics in the 1920s to the testing of the hydrogen bomb and the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the mid-1950s. In engrossing detail, David Holloway tells how Stalin launched a crash atomic program only after the Americans bombed Hiroshima and showed that the bomb could be built; how the information handed over to the Soviets by Klaus Fuchs helped in the creation of their first bomb; how the scientific intelligentsia, which included such men as Andrei Sakharov, interacted with the police apparatus headed by the suspicious and menacing Lavrentii Beria; what steps Stalin took to counter U.S. atomic diplomacy; how the nuclear project saved Soviet physics and enabled it to survive as an island of intellectual autonomy in a totalitarian society; and what happened when, after Stalin's death, Soviet scientists argued that a nuclear war might extinguish all life on earth. This magisterial history throws light on Soviet policy at the height of the Cold War, illuminates a central but hitherto secret element of the Stalinist system, and puts into perspective the tragic legacy of this program today--environmental damage, a vast network of institutes and factories, and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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