The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan
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- Pub. Date: October 1991
- 456pp
- Sales Rank: 354,318
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- Pub. Date: October 1991
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Format: Paperback, 456pp
- Sales Rank: 354,318
- Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Series
- ISBN-13: 9780804718844
- ISBN: 0804718849
- Edition Description: 1
Synopsis
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."
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On the decisions of a small group that devised the plans and policies on the use of nuclear weapons. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Biography
Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several biographies, including The Singular Mark Twain, Gore Vidal, Henry James, The Imagination of Genius, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Boothbay, Maine.
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