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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war—and then nearly agreed to abolish... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mikhail Gorbachev: Add a description of this character.
- Ronald Reagan
- Paul Nitze
- George Shultz
- Yuri Andropov
- Shevardnadze
- Yeltsin
- Jimmy Carter
- Shushkevich
- Richard Perle
- Raisa
- Khrushchev
- Mcnamara
- Weinberger
- Wohlstetter
- Cheney
- Gromyko
- Stalin
- Anatoly Chernyaev
- Akhromeyev
- Thomas Graham
- Jackson
- Arbatov
- Kennedy
- Chernenko
- Todd
- George H. W. Bush
- Blix
- Ustinov
- Brezhnev
- Gaither
- Adelman
- Henry Kissinger
- Velikhov
- Scowcroft
- Yakovlev
- Sakharov
- Sagdeev
- Gopkalo
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Moscow
- Eastern Europe
- Geneva
- Reykjavik
- Washington
- Russia
- Kremlin
- West Germany
- Stavropol
- America
- Afghanistan
- Britain
- Ukraine
- White House
- Kiev
- Japan
- U.s.s.r.
- Asia
- China
- Czechoslovakia
- Belarus
- Chernobyl
- Hiroshima
- Privolnoye
- Minsk
- Vienna
- Iceland
- Canada
- France
- U.s.a.
- Nagasaki
- Sweden
- Hungary
- Cuba
- London
- Berlin
- Poland
- New York
- Libya
- Israel
- East Germany
- California
- Iran
- Atlantic
- Pravda
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard Rhodes (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 355.021709045
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Military › Weapons & Warfare › Conventional
- Books › History › Military › Weapons & Warfare › Nuclear
- Books › History › Military › Strategy
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