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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story Of The Cold War Arms Race And Its Dangerous Legacy (2009)

by David E. Hoffman(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385524374 (ISBN13: 9780385524377)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: Incredible book! An absolute must read for sure. Presents enough well researched background to create significant concern about the possibility both weaponized BW/CW stocks remain in Russia and the expertise/capability remains to make more. With Putin's actions over the last decade, it is clear the world has much to be concerned about with respect to the future actions of the Russian Federation.
review 2: An astonishingly detailed and extensively researched history of the Cold War. The careful correlation of recently-available Soviet records with new Western sources and publish accounts lends Hoffman's work a depth and authority not previously available. From the terrifying through the mundane and comical, the events of the 1970's and 80's (culminating with... more the sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's) are portrayed from a variety of viewpoints and agendas. Readers will finally have an opportunity for a detailed insight into some of the most important events and policies of the 20th century that allows a much richer view on people who have typically only been seen as caricatures. I was particularly troubled by the willful ignorance and dangerous brinksmanship demonstrated by leaders on both sides---not to mention the clear evidence that (under Gorbachev's tacit if not active authority), the Soviet Union was pursuing an industrial-scale biological weapons program until the very end. less

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