Nuclear Playground

by Stewart Firth

Book Overview

In the late 1980s it was felt that World War III could start in the Pacific. Long regarded by the USA as an American lake, the Pacific was now a focus of competition between the superpowers. The USSR, whose nuclear-arms navy was limited to their north Pacific ports, now had a major new naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. In response to this new threat, the Americans were planning more urgently for nuclear war in the Pacific, adding to their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367533359
• ISBN13: 9780367533359
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"