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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival by Serhii Plokhy #foliosociety caution and fearOn 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: 'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.'While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a simmering and tense geopolitical landscape, events like the Chernobyl disaster and near misses like the Cuban Missile Crisis showed that total destruction was only ever one malfunction, mistake, or miscommunication