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The Bomb - A Partial History (Paperback)
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The Bomb - A Partial History (Paperback)
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
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Loot Price R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
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THE BOMB - A Partial History is a season of plays from leading
contemporary dramatists, charting the political history of the
Nuclear Bomb and its proliferation from 1940 to the present day.
FIRST BLAST (1940 - 1992) features plays by John Donnelly, Elena
Gremina, Amit Gupta, Zinnie Harris & Ron Hutchinson. It is the
first year of World War II, and in Whitehall two emigre Jewish
scientists are waiting for a meeting to get the British
establishment to take their nuclear research seriously. The
following plays then trace the history of the Labour party
wrestling with the decision to build the Atomic Bomb, the Cuban
missile crisis from a Russian perspective, China's war with India
and the subsequent development of India's bomb, the break-up of the
Soviet Union and the unilateral disarmament of Ukraine. SECOND
BLAST (1992 - 2012) features plays by Lee Blessing, Ryan Craig,
David Greig, Zinnie Harris, Diana Son & Colin Teevan. A
contemporary take on the non-proliferation debate looking at Israel
and Iran's nuclear capability, the 'axis of evil' speech and its
affect on North Korea, the U.K.'s continuing reliance on Trident in
the post Cold War era, through to the current negotiations with
Iran and weapons' inspections there.
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