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Serhii Plokhy is one of our preeminent Cold War historians, with his book Chernobyl winning the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize and subject of a hugely successful television adaptation. His new book, The Nuclear Age is a sweeping history of the geopolitics that have defined the 20th century: the nuclear arms race – from the fallacy of nuclear deterrent to the failure of arms treaties. He examines how global arms race, from Ukraine to China, India to Pakistan is making politics in the 21st century dangerously unpredictable. An essential event to understand how the world is being shaped, and where Canada stands in the world.

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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival

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Serhii Plokhy

Serhii Plokhy is a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. Author of Chernobyl Roulette, he is a leading authority on the history of the Cold War.

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