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The Partnership - Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb - cover

The Partnership - Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb

Philip Taubman

Publisher: Harper

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Summary

Offering a clear analysis of the danger of nuclear terrorism and how it can be prevented, The Partnership sheds light on one of the most divisive security issues facing Washington today. Award-winning New York Times journalist Philip Taubman illuminates our vulnerability in the face of this pressing terrorist threat—and the unlikely efforts of five key Cold War players to eliminate the nuclear arsenal they helped create. Bob Woodward calls The Partnership a “brilliant, penetrating study of nuclear threats, present and past,” and David Kennedy writes that it is “indispensable reading for all who would understand the desperate urgency of containing the menace of nuclear proliferation.”
Available since: 01/03/2012.
Print length: 478 pages.

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