- History, Nonfiction, Cold War, Arms race
This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David E. Hoffman
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 577
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Icon Books, Icon Books, Limited
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781848312531
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