Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War

Name: Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War
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SKU: 9781803411989
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By (author): Jeff Colvin

Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself. See more

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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 28 Apr 2023
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781803411989

About Jeff Colvin

The author has spent the past 45 years as a research physicist helping to develop the science that has made technically possible a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) one linchpin of the Cold War stand-down. He is the author or co-author of nearly 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has written (with Jon Larsen) what has now become the standard graduate-level text book in the new field of physics: Extreme Physics. He lives part-time in Livermore California and part-time in Gettysburg Pennsylvania.

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