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Dead hand reexamines the cold war arms race journalist david e. Dead hand documents the unseen side of the arms race as it reached its pinnacle. Gorbachev and the end of the cold war mikhail gorbachev changed the course of history as much by what he didnt do as by what he did do. Weber had a cook and a few guards, and he relied on an auto mechanic and allround fixer, slava, at a time when everything was difficult to obtain. Slava was also an avid hunter, and weber learned to stalk pheasant, moose and elk in the secluded wilds. Kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the brink of nuclear war no one is better qualified than david hoffman to tell the definitive story of the ruinous cold war arms race. The untold story of the cold war arms race and its dangerous legacy doubleday, 2009. The dead hand provides an unprecedented look at the inner motives and secret decisions of each side. The phone was still in his hand, the duty officer still on the line, when petrov was jolted again, two minutes later. The untold story of the cold war arms race and its dangerous legacy by david hoffman icon books.
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The untold story of the cold war arms race and its dangerous legacy doubleday this unknown russian held the fate of the world in his hands. He is the author of the oligarchs and of the dead hand, about the end of the cold war arms race, and winner of a 2010 pulitzer prize. There are dead bodies, people still alive, lying together, wrote a doctor. Oct 08, 2009 dead hand reexamines the cold war arms race journalist david e. There was a huge crowd of journalists waiting for george shultz, the american secretary of state, at the end of the iceland summit. Apr 04, 2011 david hoffman, 2010 pulitzer prizewinning author of the dead hand.
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And they the soviets thought that they could help those leaders by creating an alternative system so that the leader could just press a button that would say. Reagan, gorbachev and the untold story of the cold war arms race by hoffman, david e. His book takes its title from a soviet doomsday machine first conceived under brezhnev. It seems that while we were all asleep in our beds, the world has come close to annihilation more than a few times, sometimes from flocks of geese being taken for nuclear missiles. Hoffman, a washington post journalist, tells the gripping story of the secret negotiations and diplomatic maneuvers between washington and moscow to end the arms race.
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In particular, tramping the length and breadth of the old ussr, he tells us how a fading, failing kremlin leadership consistently feared an american strike that reagan, of course. Hoffman is a contributing editor at the washington post and a correspondent for pbss flagship investigative series, frontline. Steve collthe dead hand is the suspensefilled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the. In the dead hand he delivers a readable, manytentacled account of. Drawing on topsecret documents from deep inside the kremlin, memoirs, and interviews in both russia and the united states, david hoffman. Hoffman wrote on the semiautomatic nature of dead hand. Hoffman, 97817857853, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Higher authority would flip the switch if they feared they were under nuclear. Hoffman revisits the high stakes maneuverings of the cold war arms race and details the innerworkings of the soviet nuclear. Drawing on topsecret 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. The untold story of the cold war arms race and its dangerous legacy, discusses his. One patient looked up at her, eyes open, and then died.
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