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Reed, Thomas C.
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Cold War.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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At the abyss : an in...
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At the abyss : an insider's history of the Cold War / Thomas C. Reed.
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Reed, Thomas C.
New York : Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, c2004.
Subjects
Cold War.
World politics -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
ISBN:
0891418210
Description:
ix, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Communist takeovers and makeovers -- The fifties unfold -- The Paparazzi pilots -- Howard Hughes supplies the props -- Rockets and missiles -- Sputnik and the missile gap -- Nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union -- The American cyberskippers -- The resumption of nuclear tests -- Getting started in Vietnam -- Winter on the Spanish coast -- Dawn of the information age -- The Air Force recovers from Vietnam -- Inefficiency kills, empires as well as people -- President Reagan sets up the checkmate -- Ghost stories from the Reagan White House -- The queen of hearts -- Cheney, Powell, and the nuclear genie -- The closers -- The Soviet solstice -- The heroes -- Closing down.
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An unvarnished view of America's fight against Communism, from the end of WWII to the closing of the Strategic Air Command.
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Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
327.73047 Re
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