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With the use of newly opened archives, "Red Cloud at Dawn" focuses on the extraordinary story of First Lightning--the first Soviet test bomb detonated in 1949--to provide a fresh understanding of the origins of the nuclear arms race, as well as the all-too-urgent problem of proliferation.
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2010Picador · 416 pages · 9780312655426
- Other · English · 2009Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781429942416
- Other · English · 2009Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 402 pages · 9780374256821
Foreign relationsHistoryNuclear weaponsWorld politicsArms raceProliferationKernwaffeAtomwaffe