Arsenals of folly : the making of the nuclear arms race /

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 preparin...

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Autor principal: Rhodes, Richard
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Knopf, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Materias:
Nuclear weapons.
Arms race.
Acceso en línea:Table of contents only
Aporte de:Registro referencial: Solicitar el recurso aquí
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-357) and index. 
520 |a 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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