| Title : | Stalin and the bomb : the Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939-1956 |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | David Holloway, Author |
| Publisher: | New Haven : Yale Univeristy Press |
| Publication Date: | 1994 |
| Pagination: | xvi, 464 p. |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-300-06664-7 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [372]-452)
Includes index (p. 453-464) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Government policy
Nuclear energy
Nuclear weapons
Soviet Union - Foreign relations
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| Class number: | 355.8 |
| Abstract: | For 40 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 policy-makers and the public. This text traces the history of Soviet nuclear policy from developments in physics in the 1920's to the testing of the hydrogen bomb and the emergence of nuclear deterrence in the mid-1950's. It tells how Stalin launched a crash atomic programmer 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 Andre Sakharov, interacted with the police apparatus headed by Lavrentii Beria; what steps Stalin took to counter US 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 book 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 me today - environmental damage, a vast network of institutes and factories and a huge stockpile of unwanted weapons. |
| Contents note: | Ioffe's Institute; Nuclear Prehistory; Reacting to Fission; Making a Decision; Getting Started; Hiroshima; The Post-Hiroshima Project; The Premises of Policy; The Atomic Industry; The Atomic Bomb; War and the Atomic Bomb; The War of Nerves; Dangerous Relations; The Hydrogen Bomb; After Stalin; The Atom and Peace; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=18200 |
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