Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 187 g
A Story of Four Lives, One Strike, and the World That Came After. Based on Declassified Reports, Hiroshima Survivor Testimony, and Nuclear Winter Modeling (Pocketbook Edition)
Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 187 g
ISBN: 978-3-565-44377-2
Verlag: epubli
The book most people read about nuclear war gets it wrong. They speak in numbers. Megatons. Casualties. Acceptable losses. Chess moves played with other people's lives. This book does something different. It puts you inside four people on the day it happens. A Ukrainian paramedic. A Russian journalist. An American schoolteacher. An Indian engineer. You walk with them from the first flash to the long gray years after.
Stanislav Petrov in 1983 watched five American missiles light up his screen and decided it was a glitch. The world owes him a debt it does not know. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine captain ordered a nuclear torpedo launched. One officer refused. That officer's name was Vasily Arkhipov. Able Archer 83, a NATO exercise so realistic the Soviets nearly launched a real strike in response. The 1979 NORAD training tape that displayed a full Soviet attack and put planes in the air before someone caught the error. Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1961, where two 4 megaton hydrogen bombs fell from a crashing B 52, one a single switch away from detonation. Modern nuclear winter modeling shows that 100 Hiroshima sized bombs could drop Northern Hemisphere temperatures 10 to 20 degrees Celsius for a decade and starve up to two billion people.
Drawn from declassified Soviet and US reports, Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivor testimony, the Chernobyl medical record, and the 2007 Toon Robock Turco nuclear winter modeling. The human eye level story that numbers alone cannot tell.
