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The Russian Major: A Chronicle of the Cold War Kindle Edition

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It’s the late 1980’s and Glasnost, Perestroika, a failing Communist system in the USSR and surging American economic power and military might are putting enormous and unrelenting pressure on Russia’s military commands and systems. And it is the military men who may ultimately, unleash unimaginable forces of destruction on mankind, and they are at the trigger end of the pressure build up.Are these people and systems capable, are their systems fail safe and fool proof? Major Ivan Sergeivich Milkhalkov is in the Strategic Rocket Forces of the USSR and has been intensely trained to obey orders. Now in a remote posting at a nuclear launch site, separated from his pregnant young wife Ivan is beginning to feel uneasy about the mass destruction at his fingertips, and the systems that control it. He is in control of just one missile silo. His training and exposure to the nuclear systems are overwhelming him. His military family background only allows him one ideological point of view which he can’t escape. His friendships of his youth and his career force him in different directions with which he has to cope but still keep centered on his responsibilities.In the late 1980’s underground dissident movements are also causing problems for the USSR government. Their unseen connections into Russian society may have far reaching consequences if they aren’t stopped in time. It is the Cold War, and Mutually Assured Destruction is the policy on which the USSR and the USA rely on to maintain peace.Is the antiquated technology which was responsible for the Chernobyl disaster inconsistent with the political and military demands for perfect fail safe? Are the systems sufficient in the nuclear arsenal? Or is another nuclear catastrophe a possibility?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0927DHFY5
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 10, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 570 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 181 pages
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Phillip Kerrigan
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Phillip Kerrigan is an Australian author of Irish descent and he lives in Sydney, Australia. Phillips’ background is in senior management of a cosmetics company and proprietor of his own Apple computer business and Small to Medium Business Consultancy.

His company won three Reseller awards with Apple in Australia and attended Apple Inc conferences and many Mac World Expos in San Francisco. He sold his Reseller business to a US based Catalogue reseller. He then moved into consultancy work assisting small to medium businesses to utilise personal computers effectively in their business operations.

An abiding interest in world affairs, politics generally and how our planet worked had him write “The Runout Response” (published by Greenhouse Publications) a geopolitical thriller based on diminishing oil resources for the planet. This was followed by “The Russian Major” (initially published by Penguin, now on Amazon Kindle) an insightful account of what a Russian officer endures as the commander of a nuclear missile silo during the Cold War.

More recently “Where There’s a Will” (Amazon Kindle) tells the story of how a successful insurance company swindle in the USA inadvertently involves an ordinary Aussie bloke and an inheritance of $200 million.

“Treaty or Treason” fictionalises the involvement of his father and other family members in the turbulent era of Ireland’s War of Independence and Civil War and their aftermath in the early 1920’s.

Now retired Phillip’s writing is a late life pastime which he enjoys and is researching a sequel to “Treaty or Treason”. He is married, has two adult sons and two gorgeous granddaughters. He is extensively travelled (prior to 2020!), plays golf, reading mostly nonfiction, mild exercise and the occasional punt on horse racing and sport generally.

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