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the making of the nuclear arms race

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Arsenals of folly

the making of the nuclear arms race

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The story of the postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade. Drawing on a wealth of new documentation, Rhodes reveals how the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s led Soviet leader Andropov to conclude that Reagan must be preparing for a nuclear war. In 1983, when NATO staged a larger than usual series of field exercises, the Soviet military came very close to launching a defensive first strike. Then Reagan launched the arms-reduction campaign of his second presidential term and set the stage for his 1986 summit with Gorbachev in Reykjavik. Rhodes reveals the early influence of neoconservatives, demonstrating how the manipulation of government and public opinion with fake intelligence and threat inflation, which the administration of George W. Bush has used to justify current 'war on terror' and the disastrous invasion of Iraq, were developed and applied in the Reagan era and even before.--From publisher description.

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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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386

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Arsenals of folly: the making of the nuclear arms race
2008, Vintage Books
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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
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Table of Contents

pt. 1. A
rigid system -- -- 1.
To the Chernobyl sarcophagus -- -- 2.
Moscow does not believe in tears -- -- 3. A
hierarchy of vassals and chiefs -- -- pt. 2.
Apes on a treadmill -- -- 4. "The
bomber will always get through" (1) -- -- 5. "The
bomber will always get through" (2) -- -- 6. The
sorcerer's apprentices (1) -- -- 7. The
sorcerer's apprentices (2) -- -- 8.
Decapitation -- -- 9.
Rehearsing Armageddon -- -- 10. The
warheads will always get through -- -- pt. 3.
Common security -- -- 11.
Going around in circles -- -- 12.
Naysayers hard at work -- -- 13.
Looking over the horizon -- -- 14. The
sovereign right to choose -- -- 15. The
little suitcase --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Acknowledgments --
Permissions acknowledgments --
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-357) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.02/1709045
Library of Congress
U264 .R48 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
386 p. :
Number of pages
386

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24744812M
Internet Archive
arsenalsoffollym00rhod
ISBN 10
0375414134
ISBN 13
9780375414138
LCCN
2007017613
OCLC/WorldCat
137325021

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