Download or read book Avoiding Apocalypse written by Jeff Colvin and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compulsive read...' Exclusive Magazine Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself.