The Wizards of Armageddon

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Stanford University Press, Aug 1, 1991 - History - 452 pages
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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The Wizards of Armageddon
Fred Kaplan
Limited preview - 1991
The Wizards of Armageddon
Fred Kaplan
Limited preview - 1991
The Wizards of Armageddon
Fred M. Kaplan
Snippet view - 1983

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About the author (1991)

Fred Kaplan teaches at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the editor of The Essential Gore Vidal and the author of the biographies Henry James, Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Wizards of Armageddon
Stanford Nuclear Age Series
AuthorFred Kaplan
Editionreprint, reissue
PublisherStanford University Press, 1991
ISBN0804718849, 9780804718844
Length452 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / General
History / Military / Nuclear Warfare
Science / History
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
  
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