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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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“An intensely important subject....Kaplan makes it absorbing, and what is more, comprehensible.”—Barbara Tuchman

The Wizards of Armageddon

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    A Paperback / softback by Fred Kaplan, Martin J. Sherwin

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 August 1991
      ISBN-13 9780804718844
      978-0804718844
      ISBN-10 0804718849
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      History History of the Americas Politics, Philosophy & Society Nuclear weapons

      Description

      Book 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 of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.

      Trade Review
      “An intensely important subject....Kaplan makes it absorbing, and what is more, comprehensible.”—Barbara Tuchman

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