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Arsenals of Folly audiobook
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Category: History, Military, Nuclear Warfare
- Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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Arsenals of Folly Audiobook Summary
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 moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s, as well as the arms-reduction campaign that followed, and Reagan’s famous 1986 summit meeting with Gorbachev. Rhodes’s detailed exploration of events of this time 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.
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Arsenals of Folly Full Details
| Narrator | Robertson Dean |
| Length | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Author | Richard Rhodes |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781415943304 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Arsenals of Folly is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: american history, cold war, history, military history, nuclear, nuclear weapons, politics, russia, soviet union, war, bomb, interesting finds, military, world history, nuclear war, military history books, battles, gifts for history buffs, history books, guns, gun, gifts for dad, dad gifts, army, fathers day gifts, firearms, history gifts, history teacher gifts, army books, historical books, history buff gifts, history lovers gifts, espionage, international relations, technology, economics, world war ii, wwii, spy, geopolitics, History, Military, Nuclear Warfare, History, Military, Weapons, History, Military, Other The BISAC Subject Code is History, Military, Nuclear Warfare
Additional info
The publisher of the Arsenals of Folly is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781415943304.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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