The Dead Hand (Inscribed First Edition, First Printing)

Hoffman, David E.

ISBN 10: 0385524374 / ISBN 13: 9780385524377

Verlag: Doubleday, 2009

Beschreibung

Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning look at the dangers of accidental catastrophe lurking in Soviet weapons of mass destruction in the late stages of the Cold War. Drawing on information made available after the fall of the Soviet Union, David Hoffman explores how lax safeguards, indifferent security and faulty technology threatened to mistakenly unleash the horrors biological and nuclear weapons. Inscribed by David Hoffman to a previous owner on the title page. 575 pages, illustrated. The book has edge wear including bumped corners and a bump on about 10 pages at bottom. There are highlighted passages on three pages of text. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 012964

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Dead Hand (Inscribed First Edition, ...

Verlag: Doubleday

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor at the Washington Post, where he previously served as White House correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and assistant managing editor for foreign news. He is the author of The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia.

He lives in Maryland.