NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #95 of #GMGReads! Every night through this weird (and sad) time, I've been tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Continuing on with the Cold War theme for this week, I want to feature today my favorite books to understand nuclear history and nuclear weapons:
Before the official list, a quick plug for my publisher @AvidReaderPress's new book, by Chris Wallace, COUNTDOWN 1945, which I'm excited to read and examines the first days of the atomic bomb: bookshop.org/books/countdow…
1) Michael Dobbs' (@michaeldobbs) SIX MONTHS IN 1945 examines how the end of World War II transitioned into a new Cold War: bookshop.org/books/six-mont…
PS: I've already mentioned Richard Rhodes' masterful must-read MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, but....
2) DARK SUN, his book about the invention of the hydrogen bomb, is equally fascinating and another tour du force of research and writing: bookshop.org/books/dark-sun…
3) Probably the two best books on the insanity of how nuclear weapons actually operate are Eric Schlosser's COMMAND AND CONTROL bookshop.org/books/command-… and David Hoffman's DEAD HAND: bookshop.org/books/the-dead…
4) Lynn Eden's WHOLE WORLD ON FIRE is a great study in the organizational blind spots that paralyzed and distorted so much of the atomic age—how did war planners fail for 50 years to consider that exploding nuclear weapons would start fires on the ground? magersandquinn.com/product_info?p…
5) Jonathan Schell's THE FATE OF THE EARTH in the 1980s was a key turning point in the public understanding of how bad nuclear war would be and helped usher in anti-nukes efforts worldwide: powells.com/book/the-fate-…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books about the Cold War? What are you reading right now? Share! #avidreadersunite
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