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Reagan, Gorbachev and the untold story of the Cold War arms race

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An edition of The dead hand (2009)

The dead hand

Reagan, Gorbachev and the untold story of the Cold War arms race

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  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
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  • 37 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

This is a full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close. The narrative history sheds light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.

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Icon Books
Language
English
Pages
577

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Dead Hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race
2018, Icon Books, Limited
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The dead hand: Reagan, Gorbachev and the untold story of the Cold War arms race
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The dead hand: the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy
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2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Table of Contents

At the precipice
War games
War scare
The germ nightmare
The anthrax factory
The dead hand
Morning again in America
"We can't go on living like this"
Year of the spy
Of swords and shields
The road to Reykjavik
Farewell to arms
Germs, gas and secrets
The lost year
The greatest breakthrough
The year of living dangerously
A great unraveling
The scientists
Revelations
Yeltsin's promise
Project sapphire
Face to face with evil.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-553) and index.

Pulitzer Prize 2010 (nonfiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909.825
Library of Congress
U264 .H645 2011, U264 .H645 2009, U264, U264.H645 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
577 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
577

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27876820M
Internet Archive
deadhandreagango0000hoff
ISBN 10
184831230X, 1848312997, 0385524374, 1848312539
ISBN 13
9781848312302, 9781848312999, 9780385524377, 9781848312531
LCCN
2009016751
OCLC/WorldCat
692286900, 819308675, 320432478

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