<p>Following the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the twentieth century was haunted by the specter of nuclear annihilation. Locked in a hostile embrace, the U.S. and the USSR engaged in a ruinous arms race preparing for the kind of war no one wanted and no one could win. Though the Cold War ended
The nuclear arms race
โ Scribed by Mason, Jenny (Children's author), author
- Publisher
- New York : Gareth Stevens Publishing
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
48 pages : 25 cm
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