A tour de force of investigative history. -Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union-a dangerous legacy tha
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacyby DAVID HOFFMAN
β Scribed by Review by: LAWRENCE D. FREEDMAN
- Book ID
- 125255616
- Publisher
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0015-7120
- DOI
- 10.2307/20699868
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