eBook Title for Download :Arsenals of Folly (Format : mp3 , Language : English)
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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 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' 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 10 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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To capture the listener's attention, the story starts with the horror of the 1986 meltdown of the Russian nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. The author then segues into a biography of Mikhail Gorbachev and, finally, into a detailed description of the Cold War and the mutual buildup of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. Robertson Dean's precise diction and unhurried pace make for a comfortable listening experience. His deep, booming voice and resonating tone create an aura of mushroom clouds and nuclear winter as he recounts events that brought the world close to war during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1983 Russian shoot-down of a Korean airliner. While the audiobook is filled with tedious detail, this strong narrator will keep any drowsy listeners aler
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