The Fire of the Gods: Oppenheimer's Legacy - The Evolutionary History of Nuclear Age - Part 1 - 1938-1960 - From Trinity to the Hanging Sword of Damocles: The Fire of the Gods, #1
By Rajat Narang
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On July 16, 1945, the 'Trinity' Test effectively brought about the transformation of the 'American Prometheus' into the 'Destroyer of Worlds' along with an expedited dawn of the nuclear age as the Laws of Physics were successfully reappraised by the Homo Sapiens. However, the initial premise and the hopeful promise of the creation of a 'Super Weapon' to end all wars has remained more or less a chimera for humanity even after 7+ decades of its genesis.
The dawn of the nuclear age; following Trinity and the subsequent atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki; unleashed the Cold War-era with nuclear weapons effectively becoming the 'Hanging Sword of Damocles', as famously described by JFK, with the possibility of a potential nuclear catastrophe by accident, miscalculation or madness staying as a very real possibility throughout and the extinction of Homo Sapiens from planet Earth, just a matter of seconds, which fortunately was somehow averted on multiple occasions and humanity, somehow, managed to survive.
Part 1 of this multi-part book series focuses on the evolution of atomic age from its genesis at Los Alamos during World War II till 1960. It covers the subsequent spread of nuclear weapons to Soviet Union and other regional powers based in Europe, namely, the U.K. & France and the transition from nuclear to thermonuclear age for the mankind against the backdrop of Cold War; based on recently declassified documents by the CIA , the U.S. State Department, KGB (after the end of Cold War in the 1990s decade) and other international agencies; thereby, unraveling multiple, tightly-held secrets and lesser known facets of the nuclear age in the process...
Marx had said long ago, "History repeats itself twice, first as tragedy and second as farce." The tragedy of the atomic age is way behind us, in form, of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. However, let's brace up for the farce now...
P.S. The limited time special price for this e-book is to support Nuclear Threat Initiative's (NTI) latest 'Make Nuclear Weapons History' Campaign and in the wake of Oppenheimer movie's 7 Oscar Wins...
Rajat Narang
Rajat Narang is the Co-Founder and Partner of a niche Research Firm pivoted on the Global Aerospace & Defense Industry for over a decade now apart from being a serial Author and active Podcaster. He has authored over 2000+ syndicated research reports (across industries & sectors) and has authored around 8 books on Commercial & Military Aviation and Leadership. The end users of his reports have been senior executives of leading Commercial & Military Aviation OEMs led by Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Gulfstream, Dassault, Textron Aviation and their supplier base, including, engine OEMs and T1 suppliers such as GE Aviation, Rolls Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Safran & Spirit Aerosystems. His reports have also been leveraged by the U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin Corporation, BAE Systems, General Dynamics Land Systems and Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) on the defense side of A&D. His educational background includes a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in International Business with Business Strategy as the core pivot followed by a Masters in Political Science with specialization in International Relations. His podcasts “Birds of Fray: Top Gun Maverick” and “M.S. Dhoni: Leadership Masterclass from the Master of the Craft” are available on most leading global platforms, including, Amazon Music, Spotify and Apple & Google Podcasts and have a substantial following. Bitten early by the A&D, Strategy & Leadership bugs while growing up, he has been actively following, tracking & pursuing them for almost 2 decades now.
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