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Wojna w erze nuklearnej. Rozważania cywilów i wojskowych na temat bomby atomowej i skutków jej użycia
War in the Nuclear Era. Deliberations of Civilians and Military Men on an Atomic Bomb and Effects of Its Use

Author(s): Elżbieta Olzacka
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: nuclear war; atomic bomb; nuclear era; nuclear strategies

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the issue of development of views on an atomic bomb and a nuclearwar created by scientists, politicians, military commanders, as well as civilian strategists,starting from the vision of an atomic bomb as a herald of the New Deal, social and political,till the American military plans of a nuclear attack on hundreds of targets in the Soviet Union. The aim of the study is to demonstrate that the nuclear revolution which involvednot only to military matters, but also strategy, international policy or war ethics was primarilylinked to, apart from new technology, the idea of the future nuclear war and how its range,course and consequences were imagined.

  • Issue Year: 456/2017
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 21-31
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish