TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffman,David E.
TI  - The dead hand: the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy 
SN  - 9780385524377
AV  - U 264 .H645 2009 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Reagan, Ronald
KW  - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich,
KW  - Arms race
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Nuclear disarmament
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Influence
KW  - Bewapeningswedloop
KW  - gtt
KW  - Massavernietigingswapens
KW  - Ontwapening
KW  - Ost-West-Konflikt
KW  - swd
KW  - R�ustungswettlauf
KW  - gnd
KW  - idszbz
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Sovjet-Unie
KW  - Rusland
KW  - Verenigde Staten
KW  - USA
KW  - Sowjetunion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 491]-553) and index; 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
N2  - During the Cold War, superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the "Dead Hand," a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the creation of space-based missile defenses. This, the first full account of how the arms race finally ended, provides an unprecedented look at the inner motives and secret decisions of each side. Drawing on top-secret documents from deep inside the Kremlin, memoirs, and interviews in both Russia and the United States, David Hoffman introduces the scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and spies who saw the world sliding toward disaster and tells the gripping story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and many others struggled to bring the madness to an end.--From publisher description
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