The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every ... do record the faces of the "Great Destroyers" but the whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace, and ...

To some extent, the book's sense of scale is a result of the subject matter: Polostan is a story about the dawn of the atomic age. Set largely in the 1930s, it sweeps across the Soviet Union and ...

The end of the Second World War heralded the Atomic Era, where testing and concerns about nuclear weapons spread worldwide.