Fred Kaplan

The never-before-told story of the officers, officials, scientists, and spies who have devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning--and waging--these wars for decades. --Publisher

"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's "Tank" in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command in Omaha to bring us the untold stories--based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents--of how America's presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the...

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