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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 575 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
"During the Cold War, superpowers amassed nuclear arsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the 'Dead Hand,' a system designed to launch an automatic retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the creation of space-based missile defenses....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
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