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On the Sunday Morning Coffee Pot: The Dead Hand by David Hoffman |
2011-12-03 |
For Sunday, lotp reviews "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy" An excerpt: To understand how we got to where we are today, with a POTUS dedicated to dismantling the US nuclear arsenal while madmen in Pyongyang and Teheran - or are they mad??? - work to acquire thermonuclear weapons and threaten by their actions to pass tactical nukes to terror groups, it helps to know how close we came - or how close some thought we came - to serious nuclear annihilation during the Cold War. Only on the Sunday Morning Coffee Pot... |
Posted by:badanov |
#1 Thanks for the advance notice. I still shudder when I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was old enough then to have read a bit & have a basic grasp of the stakes at the time. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-12-03 23:37 |