The Wizards of Armageddon

This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists and the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed. This is the third volume in the "Stanford Nuclear Age Series."

Summary

This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.

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“An intensely important subject....Kaplan makes it absorbing, and what is more, comprehensible.”—Barbara Tuchman

Product details

• Authors: Fred Kaplan
• Assisted by: Martin J. Sherwin (Foreword)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1991
• EAN: 9780804718844
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-1884-4
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 676 g
• Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Paperbac; Stanford Nuclear Age Series; Stanford Nuclear Age (Paperbac; Stanford Nuclear Age
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration