Arsenals of Folly

Arsenals of FollyBy: Richard Rhodes From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb comes this brilliant account of the post war superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons. In a narrative that reads like a thriller, Rhodes reveals how the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms build up

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