Eve of Destruction: The inside story of our dangerous nuclear world

US President Harry Truman ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, which are the most well-known nuclear destruction events. However, there have been a number of nuclear accidents and mishaps since then, including potential conflicts and other accidents. Eve of Destruction is a warning from history and a call to take note of the real danger of nuclear catastrophe. It is a timely and important book because the future of our planet concerns us all.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 22 April 2021
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd

US President Harry Truman was well aware of the devastating power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have predicted its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. These military attacks, along with the disasters at the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear reactors, are often associated with nuclear destruction, but the majority of the events recorded in this book remain unknown to most people. This book presents the facts, many of which are still shrouded in secrecy, that reveal a concerning truth: we have teetered on the brink of Armageddon far more frequently than the general public realizes.

Since the first and only atomic war in 1945, there have been a terrifying number of nuclear accidents and mishaps, ranging from careless or accidental to genuinely intentional and narrowly averted. Despite the catastrophic nature of any nuclear conflict, we have come to the very borders of such a situation eight times since the 1960s. These were potential conflicts, but there have been other accidents, such as the reactor meltdown at the nuclear generating plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, in 1979, or the Palomares Incident in 1966, when a USAF B-52 bomber crashed after a mid-air collision, dropping four hydrogen bombs on Spanish soil.

Eve of Destruction is a warning from history, recent history. It is a call to sit up and listen, and to take note of the very real danger of nuclear catastrophe. It is a timely and important book because, after all, the future of our planet has to concern us all.

Weight: 634g
Dimension: 162 x 242 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789463378