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1 Rhodes, Richard Arsenals of Folly The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Knopf 2007 0375414134 / 9780375414138 First Edition First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket 
2007 stated first edition Knopf hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Book is unread. No marks, tears, bumps, or rubbing. Protective mylar cover. 1.5 x 9.9 x 6.8 Inches 400 pages

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 nuclear weapons.

In a narrative that reads like a thriller, Rhodes reveals how the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s led ailing Soviet leader Yuri Andropov to conclude that Reagan must be preparing for a nuclear war. In the fall of 1983, when NATO staged a larger than usual series of field exercises that included, uniquely, a practice run-up to a nuclear attack, the Soviet military came very close to launching a defensive first strike on Europe and North America. With Soviet aircraft loaded with nuclear bombs warming up on East German runways, U.S. intelligence organizations finally realized the danger. Then Reagan, out of deep conviction, launched the arms-reduction campaign of his second presidential term and set the stage for his famous 1986 summit meeting with Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the breakthroughs that followed.

Rhodes reveals the early influence of neoconservatives and right-wing figures such as Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz. We see how Perle in particular sabotaged the Reykjavik meeting by convincing Reagan that mutual nuclear disarmament meant giving up his cherished dream of strategic defense (the Star Wars system). Rhodes’s detailed exploration of these and other events constitutes a prehistory of the neoconservatives, demonstrating that the manipulation of government and public opinion with fake intelligence and threat inflation that the administration of George W. Bush has used to justify the current “war on terror” and the disastrous invasion of Iraq were developed and applied in the Reagan era and even before.

Drawing on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants, and on a wealth of new documentation, memoir literature, and oral history that has become available only in the past ten years, Rhodes recounts what actually happened in the final years of the Cold War that led to its dramatic end. The story is new, compelling, and continually surprising—a revelatory re-creation of a hugely important era of our recent history.

 
Price: 37.95 USD
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2 Rhodes, Richard Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1995 068480400X / 9780684804002 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 
1995 first edition partial cloth hardcover and dust jacket. Book has slight fading at bottom spine. Dust jacket price clipped with tiny bit of edgewear at corners. 
Price: 17.10 USD
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3 Rhodes, Richard The Twilight of the Bombs Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
Knopf 2010 0307267547 / 9780307267542 First Edition First Printing Hardcover New in New dust jacket 
New and unread 2010 part cloth hardcover and dust jacket in excellent condition. Protective mylar cover. 1.7 x 9.1 x 6.3 Inches 384 pages Collectible 
Price: 47.45 USD
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