First And Final War: A Basic Information Manual On The Effects Of Nuclear War Applied To Australasia
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Binding intact, pages secure. Usual shelf-wear.
First and Final War is a sobering and meticulously researched manual that confronts the terrifying realities of nuclear conflict as they would apply to the Australasian region. Editor David Blair assembles a comprehensive body of information that details the physical, environmental, and human consequences of nuclear war, grounding abstract geopolitical threats in the lived geography and populations of Australia and New Zealand. The manual presents cold, authoritative data alongside strategic analysis, forcing readers to reckon with the proximity of catastrophe rather than its distant abstraction. Blair's work occupies a unique space in antipodean Cold War literature, functioning simultaneously as a civil defence primer and a pointed political argument against nuclear complacency in the Southern Hemisphere. The tone is unflinching and urgent, stripping away the comfortable distance many Australasians felt from superpower brinkmanship and illustrating with stark clarity why no corner of the globe remains untouched. For anyone seeking to understand the nuclear threat through a distinctly regional lens, this manual remains a chilling and essential document.
Author: David Blair
Format: Paperback
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Binding intact, pages secure. Usual shelf-wear.
First and Final War is a sobering and meticulously researched manual that confronts the terrifying realities of nuclear conflict as they would apply to the Australasian region. Editor David Blair assembles a comprehensive body of information that details the physical, environmental, and human consequences of nuclear war, grounding abstract geopolitical threats in the lived geography and populations of Australia and New Zealand. The manual presents cold, authoritative data alongside strategic analysis, forcing readers to reckon with the proximity of catastrophe rather than its distant abstraction. Blair's work occupies a unique space in antipodean Cold War literature, functioning simultaneously as a civil defence primer and a pointed political argument against nuclear complacency in the Southern Hemisphere. The tone is unflinching and urgent, stripping away the comfortable distance many Australasians felt from superpower brinkmanship and illustrating with stark clarity why no corner of the globe remains untouched. For anyone seeking to understand the nuclear threat through a distinctly regional lens, this manual remains a chilling and essential document.