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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown

By Steve Sheinkin
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Macmillan Imprint Roaring Brook ISBN

9781250149015

Awards and Honors 2022 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - Honor Book
2022 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children - Honor Book

Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown

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Language: Crude Humor,Language: Infrequent Use,Language: Strong Language,Violence: Graphic Descriptions

A follow up to the award-winning Bomb, celebrated nonfiction author Steve Sheinkin takes on the Cold War.



As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim deep below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night.



The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed towards each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third—and final—world war.

Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Black-and-white photographs. 
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