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Fred Kaplan
The Wizards of Armageddon

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 456 ● ISBN 9780804796170 ● File size 1.4 MB ● Publisher Stanford University Press ● Published 1991 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5208660 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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