At the abyss : an insider's history of the Cold War / Thomas C. Reed.
By: Reed, Thomas C
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Contributor(s): Bush, George
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Publisher: New York : Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, c2004Description: ix, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0891418210.Subject(s): Cold War![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/15x15xfilefind.png.pagespeed.ic.h79nGHhuct.png)
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Introduction by George H.W. Bush.
"A Presidio Press book." ; Ballantine Books.
Includes bibliographucal references and index.
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.
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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