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Author Ambinder, Marc, author.

Title The brink : President Reagan and the nuclear war scare of 1983 / Marc Ambinder.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  355.0217 AMBINDER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  355.5 AMB    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  355.52 AMB    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  355.0217 AMBINDER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  355.0217 AMBINDER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.927 AMB    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  355.0217 AMBINDER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  355.5209 AMBINDER    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xx, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.
Contents Part I: Decapitation -- Détente's rise and fall -- Toward protracted nuclear war -- Decapitation -- Man in the gap -- Project RYAN -- Warning -- Zero-zero -- Ivy League '82 -- Bogging down -- The view from London -- Part II: To the brink -- 1983 -- The Evil Empire -- SDI and sabotage -- Provocations -- Diamonds -- Spy vs. spy -- Green shoots -- The Phantom (part I) -- The Phantom (part II) -- The day before the day after -- Able Archer 83 -- FLASH telegram -- Validate and authenticate -- Open hatches -- Part III: Endgame(s) -- Sacrifice -- Warning of war -- Ivan and Anya -- What did we miss? -- Arguing on behalf of Soviet fears -- How can this be? -- Roll the dice -- A new hope, but still, star wars? -- Not to miss the chance -- To Geneva -- Epilogue.
Summary The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Subject North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- History -- 20th century.
Europe -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Military maneuvers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear crisis control -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Cold War.
ISBN 9781476760377 (hardcover)
1476760373 (hardcover)
9781476760391 (ebook)
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