The Fire of the Gods: Oppenheimer's Legacy - The Evolutionary History of Nuclear Age - Part 1 - 1938-1960 - From Trinity to the Hanging Sword of Damocles / The Fire of the Gods (ePub)

On July 16, 1945, the 'Trinity' Test effectively brought about the transformation of the 'American Prometheus' into the 'Destroyer of Worlds' along with an expedited dawn of the nuclear age as the Laws of Physics were successfully reappraised by the Homo Sapiens. However, the initial premise and the hopeful promise of the creation of a 'Super Weapon' to end all wars has remained more or less a chimera for humanity even after 7+ decades of its genesis.

The dawn of the nuclear age; following Trinity and the subsequent atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki; unleashed the Cold War-era with nuclear weapons effectively becoming the 'Hanging Sword of Damocles', as famously described by JFK, with the possibility of a potential nuclear catastrophe by accident, miscalculation or madness staying as a very real possibility throughout and the extinction of Homo Sapiens from planet Earth, just a matter of seconds, which fortunately was somehow averted on multiple occasions and humanity, somehow, managed to survive.

Part 1 of this multi-part book series; based on recently declassified documents by the CIA , the U.S. State Department, KGB after the end of Cold War and other international agencies; focuses on the evolution of atomic age from its genesis during World War II till 1960. Key highlights of the analysis include:-

1. Why the U.S. decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan was a geopolitical move and was a part of U.S.-U.S.S.R. power play and early quest for greater global influence which eventually transformed into Cold War?
2. How the Soviets obtained the technical design as well as actual data behind the creation of Atomic Bomb via the deep inroads of their spy ring inside the Manhattan Project?
3. How the Soviet A-Bomb detonated in 1949 was a replica of the American 'Fat Man' bomb dropped earlier on Nagasaki with the Soviet device built to exact same specifications aided by the Nazi-era German scientists after the end of war?
4. How the allies blocked Soviets' access to global Uranium mines to prevent and delay them from being able to become a nuclear power ?
5. How U.S. aloofness towards key allies over Soviet spy activities led to resumption of the British nuclear weapons program after the end of war and led to nuclear proliferation culminating in the British Atomic Bomb?
6. How Nazi-era German rocket scientists and the V-2 program became the fountainhead of the Ballistic Missile and Space Programs across both the U.S. as well as the Soviet Union after the end of war resulting in early ballistic missiles across both sides being almost replicas of the V-2?