Hiroshima and the Containment of Political Eurasia

The rise of the nuclear order and the eternal clash between Sea and Land

Pierre-Antoine Plaquevent unveils the birth of the nuclear order and the cosmopolitan creed that transformed war into a planetary duel between sea power and Eurasia.

In 1945, the alliance between the political West and the Soviet Union triumphed over the fascist Axis. Yet this alliance of convenience between a denazified political West and Stalinism was …