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| On the Sunday Morning Coffee Pot: David Hoffman's Book "The Dead Hand" |
| 2011-12-03 |
| Excerpt from tomorrow's review: "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. David Hoffman's 2009 book The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy recounts in detail threats the public remained unaware of at the time, and the slow dance towards strategic arms control agreements. Hoffman, a WaPo investigative reporter whose book greeted the newly installed Adminstration, favors disarmament. But do the remedies advanced by either the Left or the Right during the Cold War address the threat we face today?" |
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