The Fire of the Gods: Oppenheimer's Legacy - The Declassified, Real History of Nuclear Weapons & Atomic Age - Part I - The Build-Up

From 'Trinity' to the 'Hanging Nuclear Sword of Damocles'

De: Rajat Narang

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

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 evolution of nuclear age in the process...

Marx had said long ago, "History repeats itself twice, first as a tragedy and second as farce". The tragedy of nuclear age is well behind us, in form, of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, let's brace up for the farce now!

About the "Fire of the Gods" Book Series

The 4-part book series analyzes the nuclear age from its dawn to the end of first nuclear age with the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. as well as the end of Cold War in 1991 and challenges traditionally held views in the light of recently declassified documents and debunks traditional views & popular myths in the light of latest documentary evidence. Key highlights of the analysis include:-

1. Why the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan was a geopolitical move and was an part of U.S.-U.S.S.R. power play and early quest for greater global influence, a core tenet of the Cold War between the superpowers for over 4+ decades?

2. How the biggest U.S. nuclear detonation ever, the Castle Bravo test of 1954 with an actual yield of 15 megatons (as against the originally expected 6 megatons), was caused by limited technical know-how available at the time about the chemical properties of Lithium-7 used in the fusion fuel which was actually considered to be inert?

3. Breaks the popular myth that Soviet defense overspending, in response to Reagan era's SDI/Star Wars program, led to U.S.S.R.'s disintegration ultimately, which, instead, was rather triggered by Gorbachev's active & simultaneous pursuit of structural, economic and political reforms in a highly repressive system?

4. Insights into U.S. plans & experiments in the late 1950s to create an electromagnetic defensive shield over North America based on high, low-yield nuclear detonations and the Christofilos Effect

5. How U.S. Nuclear Bullying triggered France, China and India's decisions to become Nuclear Weapon States while its facilitation & tacit support for Israel and Pakistan produced two more nuclear weapon states?

6.Insights into Ludicrous U.S. plans crafted in the 1960s to detonate Hydrogen bombs to widen Panama Canal and to create an alternate shipping waterway to the Suez Canal in the Middle East by detonating almost 200 hydrogen bombs of over 2 megatons in yield ?