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• ISBN: 9781476760377
• ISBN: 1476760373
• Physical Description: print
  xx, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
• Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
• Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: Decapitation. Détente's rise and fall ; Toward protracted nuclear war ; Decapitation ; Man in the gap ; Project RYAN ; Warning ; Zero-zero ; Ivy League '82 ; Bogging down ; The view from London -- Part II: To the brink. 1983 ; The Evil Empire ; SDI and sabotage ; Provocations ; Diamonds ; Spy vs. spy ; Green shoots ; The Phantom (part I) ; The Phantom (part II) ; The day before The Day After ; Able Archer 83 ; FLASH telegram ; Validate and authenticate ; Open hatches -- Part III: Endgame(s). Sacrifice ; Warning of war ; Ivan and Anya ; What did we miss? ; Arguing on behalf of Soviet fears ; How can this be? ; Roll the dice ; A new hope, but still, Star Wars? ; Not to miss the chance ; To Geneva.

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization History 20th century

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Nuclear crisis control History 20th century

Nuclear weapons Government policy United States History 20th century

Cold War

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United States History, Military 20th century

Soviet Union Foreign relations United States

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