Eurasian Tinderbox

The U.S. Buildup Against Russia and China

On August 6 1945, the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Japan. The subsequent Cold War between the West and Soviet Russia witnessed the most dangerous flashpoints in human history. Today, as NATO carries out the biggest military buildup on Russia's borders since Hitler's invasion of the USSR in 1941, the spectre of an accidental nuclear war has returned with a vengeance. On the other side of the Atlantic, the U.S. conducts a parallel encirclement strategy against China, whose economic and military rise marks the end of American dominance in the Asia-Pacific.

Author Jimmy Colwill, producer/director of 'Flashpoints' (2017), journeys through the genesis of the nuclear age and the string of historical flashpoints since 1945, culminating in today's Eurasian tinderbox.