Name: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Author: David E. Hoffman
ISBN: 9780385532174

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HOFFMAN, David E.

The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

2009

1. The Nuclear Age

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David E. Hoffman The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2009) Overview Hoffman’s Pulitzer-winning history is about the end of the Cold War arms race told deliberately from both sides, and about the thing that outlived it. Its subject is not the diplomacy of summits but the machinery underneath: the missiles, the early-warning satellites, the fermenters growing anthrax, the war plans with ninety variations, and the people who built and then recoiled from them. The title is literal. At the peak…

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Accession:FL-0103

ISBN-13:9780385532174

Published:2009

Language:en

Shelved under:The Nuclear Age

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