The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

A history of the end of the arms race describes the Soviet Union's development of an automatic retaliatory attack system, the United States's efforts to create space-based missile defenses, and the struggle to prevent nuclear weapons from being acquired by terrorists.

• | Author: David Hoffman
• | Publisher: Anchor
• | Publication Date: August 03, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 577 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0307387844
• | ISBN-13: 9780307387844