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Part of a series that looks at case studies of man-made disasters, grouped under particular themes. This text examines nuclear disasters and explores the effect, impact and consequences of such events, and also considers the potential for, and prevention of future disasters. ... Read more

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During the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people died from the use of nuclear weapons in Nuclear War I and other nuclear disasters. Dr. Newtan's book describes the disastrous consequences of the following nuclear developments all of which occurred in the 20th century: The Trinity Test of a nuclear device (explosion)The destruction of Hiroshima by a uranium bombThe destruction of Nagasaki by a plutonium bombThe hydrogen bomb, neutron bomb, and cobalt bombRadioactive falloutRadiological weaponsThe BRAVO Test (hydrogen bomb)Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disasterChernobyl nuclear reactor disasterFermi I breeder reactor disasterNuclear submarine disasters (U.S., U.S.S.R.)Thresher nuclear submarine disasterScorpion nuclear submarine disasterNuclear satellite disastersLost nuclear weaponsLost nuclear fissile materials for weaponsNuclear waste disastersActs of war on nuclear facilitiesNuclear terrorismProliferation of nuclear weaponsNuclear reactors in spaceNuclear weapons in space Nuclear waste - can it be safely stored for millennia? ... Read more

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The papers collected in this book show the results of investigations performed by Russian scientists in the field of low dose irradiation action. It is confirmed that low doses do have effects on the human organism and the environment and that the most serious consequences are observed in the far post-irradiation period. This branch of radiobiology, which developed after the Chernobyl accident and studied its consequences, is discussed in detail.

The main part of reviews and articles is devoted to the aspects of low dose effects on the human and animal genome and far post-irradiation consequences. New details of mechanisms of low dose action are shown and methods of their determination are discussed. Furthermore, the adaptive response of organisms and the low dose effects on the immune system are demonstrated. Also, the difference between protection mechanisms against low dose irradiation and against high dose irradiation is shown and proved.

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This volume reports on the proceedings of the International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, in Erice, Italy. It looks at the role of science as we enter the third millennium. ... Read more

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The 1986 explosion at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl was a human as well as environmental catastrophe, and this thorough account of the accident examines its causes, the response of the Soviet government, and the tragic aftermath of a horror that still lives on. ... Read more

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This attempts to understand the radioactive aftermath
The reactor at Chernobyl was too large and too well engineered to produce the kind of explosion that is considered typical for weapons, but it was capable of reaching temperatures that were much higher than mere fireman could cool by spraying water on the blaze.

For most of the people involved in fighting the fire, the temperature was a minor problem compared to the radioactive storm of particles and rays released in the reaction.The operators in the control room thought they had some control over the reaction long after two explosions had flipped the concrete lid over the reactor and blew the roof off a large building.Everyone who was not vaporized immediately knew that the reactor core had not exploded in the typical mushroom cloud catastrophe which is so familiar from hundreds of weapons tests.Due to a fire, they did not have access to equipment which could have told them how high the level of radiation being released from the core had grown, but that level was so high, it could have produced panic, so large numbers of people would never be told.Medical science is not really up to date on what people who are subject to such a subatomic particle ambush can expect for the rest of their lifespan, and all the doctors in the Soviet Union worked for the government, which never planned to tell the people much about anything.

The book, CHERNOBYL THE ONGOING STORY OF THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST NUCLEAR DISASTER by Glenn Alan Cheney, makes an honest effort to look at everything that people might learn from studying all the forms of subatomic particle ambushes that took place as a result of the Chernobyl secret circus stunt.The sense of condemnation which drives this book is fought by those who had avoided for so long the question:Who is Oedipus here, and who the Sphinx?The science found itself starting off on a strange foot:

"The victims suffered from radiation and heat burns.Their skin was browned like toasted marshmallow.In some places it was black like burned marshmallow.Their skin cracked, blistered, peeled, hung in strips. . . .Their hair fell out."(p. 43).

"The world outside the Soviet Union knew more about what was happening than the victims it was happening to.On April 28 Sweden registered the first signs of a radioactive mishap.A monitoring station noticed rising levels of radioactivity.Further analysis revealed a bizarre array of rare isotopes, a combination not normally produced by an atomic explosion or a nuclear reactor leak.One of the isotopes was ruthenium, which melts only at 4,050 degrees F (2,250 degrees C)--a temperature found only on the sun, in a melting nuclear reactor, or, for an instant, in a nuclear bomb.An assessment of atmospheric conditions pointed at the Soviet Union.Sweden announced the discovery and made diplomatic inquiries to Moscow.At first Moscow admitted to nothing but later conceded a trifling accident, a quick and minor release of radioactivity."(p. 83).

This book ought to be praised most highly for its attempt to picture what happens when subatomic particles ambush people in a way which the reader can understand.Ruthenium is not a particularly exotic chemical element, with an atomic number of 44 and an atomic weight of 101.07, it appears in the middle of the periodic table of elements in the transition elements, and as a metal it is useful in alloys for electrical contacts that don't wear or corrode.It can be great stuff, if you know how to use it.It was not the first thing that was noticed in Kiev at the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on Monday morning, April 28, 1986:

"That Monday, officials were surprised to find radiation coming into the building.It was on people's clothes.These weren't people from Chernobyl or Pripyat.They were people who had just ridden city buses to work, as they had every other morning.But this morning, April 28, the buses were radioactive.They'd been to Pripyat to pick up the evacuees.The evacuees had left so much radiation on the buses that people who sat in the seats the next morning were wearing clothes that would qualify as hazardous materials.Dosimeters showed that clothing had radiation levels five times higher than that allowed on equipment used to handle radioactive material, and thousands of times higher than that allowed to come in contact with people."(p. 85).

"The train station was probably the worst place to be.As empty trains came into the city they pulled in clouds of radioactive dust.The trains themselves were radioactive.The crowd at the station was radioactive, with everybody radiating everybody else."(pp. 89-90).

Local effects in the United States varied."Levels of iodine 131 were lowest in the region around Texas, where the least rain had fallen, and the death rate there remained unchanged from the year before."(p. 102).

"According to information in DEADLY DECEIT, infant mortality also soared in Germany.In the most heavily contaminated regions it rose 68 percent."(p. 104).

Before the incident at Chernobyl, Lyme disease, "caused by a bacteria that was harmless to humans before 1975 . . . first appeared around Lyme, Connecticut, a few miles from the Millstone nuclear power plant.Millstone has leaked more radiation than any other U.S. nuclear power plant besides Three Mile Island, and in 1975 alone released some three million curies."(p. 106). ... Read more

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In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber’s payload–four unarmed thermonuclear bombs–across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest search-and-salvage operation in U.S. military history.

Moran traces the roots of the Palomares incident, giving a brief yet in-depth history of the Strategic Air Command and its eccentric, larger-than-life commander, General Curtis LeMay, whose massive deterrence strategy kept armed U.S. bombers aloft at all times. Back on the ground, Moran recounts the myriad social and environmental effects of an accident that spread radioactive debris over hundreds of acres of Spanish farmland, alarmed America’s strategic allies, and damaged Spanish-American diplomatic relations.

As the American military floundered in its attempt to keep the story secret, the events in Spain sometimes took on farcical overtones. Constant global media hype was fueled by the hit James Bond movie Thunderball, with its plot about an atomic weapon lost at sea. In addition, there were the unwanted attentions of a rusty- hulled Soviet surveillance ship and even awkward public relations stunts, complete with American diplomats in swim trunks.

The Day We Lost the H-Bomb is a singular work of military history that effortlessly and dramatically captures Cold War hysteria, high-stakes negotiations, and the race to clean up a disaster of unprecedented scope. At once epic and intimate, this book recounts in stunning detail the fragile peace Americans had made with nuclear weapons–and how the specter of imminent doom forced the United States to consider not only what had happened over Palomares but what could have happened. This forgotten chapter of Cold War history will grip readers with the tension of that time and reawaken the fears and hopes of that dangerous era.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, April 2009: In 1966, a mid-air collision off the coast of Spain between a fueling tanker and a B2 bomber resulted in a loss of life, strained international relations, and a PR nightmare for the US government. Not only had the crash put innocent civilians at risk from raining debris, but it also produced a much larger problem once the dust had cleared: four hydrogen bombs were now unaccounted for. The Day We Lost the H-Bomb explores an awakening to the realities of a nuclear age. Despite a handful of plutonium-grade foul-ups on our own soil, Americans were seemingly at ease with a burgeoning arsenal of nuclear weaponry. Cold War anxiety over the ever-reaching arm of Communism fueled massive increases in U.S. military spending, yet not enough attention was given to the dangers of an arms race until this fatal accident abroad.--Dave Callanan

Amazon Exclusive: An Essay by Barbara Moran

The Swim

Two years ago, on a chilly February morning, I found myself standing on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.I was wearing a bathing suit, shivering in the cold and feeling like a complete idiot.

It was all Ellen’s fault.A few weeks earlier, before leaving for Spain to research The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, I had had lunch with Ellen Ruppel Shell, a former writing teacher.As we chatted about my upcoming trip, I told her the story of Angier Biddle Duke, the American Ambassador to Spain in 1966.After the United States accidentally dropped four hydrogen bombs near a Spanish village, Duke orchestrated a PR stunt, swimming in the chilly Med to prove that the water wasn’t radioactive.

I mentioned that I was planning to visit the beach where Angie swam.Ellen looked at me and said, “Well, of course you have to swim there, too.” I had to admit she was right.It’s always easier to write about something you’ve experienced firsthand.

Now, here I was on the beach.I had been anxious about the swim, searching for any excuse to get out of it.My translator had mentioned something about a jellyfish invasion of the Mediterranean, which gave me hope.But I had scoped out the beach the previous day and there wasn’t a jellyfish in sight.No people in sight, either.In my few days on the coast I had seen no one in the water and hardly anyone on the beach, just a few pasty Brits and backpackers sprawled on the sand.It was, after all, February.

The next morning I got up at dawn.My plan was to sneak down to the beach without anyone seeing me.The Spanish were used to gringos acting strangely, but a dip in the Med in the middle of winter was surely a bit too far.

The beach was deserted, but I noted with alarm that a tour bus was parked beside the road overlooking the ocean.Unlike Angie Duke, my goal was to attract as little attention as possible.I took off my shirt and shorts, and stood on the beach on my bathing suit, cursing Ellen for putting this idea in my head.Where were those jellyfish when I needed them? I wondered if the tour bus was filling with old folks who now had something interesting to look at.

I took my first step in.The water was clear and cold, the bottom soft and pebbled.I took a few more steps, my feet sinking into the sand.There was a steep drop and I was suddenly up to my waist.A quick count of one, two, three and I ducked underwater.I came back up, shook my hair and tasted the salty water on my face.My job was done.

My 30-second dip in the Med, after all my anxiety, was anticlimactic.Angie’s swim was completely the opposite.--Barbara Moran

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Cinematic telling of fascinating nuclear event


Armed with only a fuzzy, high school history class recollection of the H-bomb accident over Palomares, Barbara Moran crystallized the story for me in a fast-paced, compelling and stunningly detailed narrative. The interplay of personalities with the politics of the time makes the story almost movie-like, and it was impossible for me to put down. I walked away not only with a solid understanding of cold war politics and the nascent nuclear age, but a sense of the very strange times it was on the ground when The U.S.'s sophisticated defense system of the sky collided with the simple lives of the fishermen and farmers in remote Palomares.

A Must Read for Cold War Historians, EOD Techs, Salvors
During much of the Cold War, the United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) constantly maintained nuclear laden bombers near Soviet airspace as a form of deterrence. On January 17, 1966, one of SAC's B-52s rendezvoused with a KC-135 tanker over Palomares, Spain to conduct a final mid-air refueling before returning home. An accident occurred during the refueling and both aircraft collided. In the debris that rained down on the Mediterranean coast were chunks of burning aircraft, chuffing jet fuel, parachuting aircrew, and four nuclear bombs.

Barbara Moran describes this accident vividly in "The Day We Lost the H-Bomb." She then delves into the exhaustive efforts recover the weapons and rid the town of any deadly radiation. Fortunately, the first three bombs were discovered in Palomares within days. Based on the accounts of Spanish fishermen who witnesses the accident, it was determined that the fourth bomb plunged into the Med, miles offshore.

Much of Moran's book follows the efforts of Navy Divers, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technicians, and mini-subs like Alvin and Aluminaut, to find and recover the fourth bomb. Her account includes intimate details of many of the key players that she obtained through exhaustive research and interviews. Navy veterans especially will be able to identify with men like Admiral Guest, the Task Force Commander; Commander Red Moody, the EOD Officer in Charge; and Mac McCamis, the irascible Alvin pilot.
Moran's writing flows very comfortably, drawing the reader into the story and then keeping them engaged with both politics and recovery operations. This books is a must read for those interested in Cold War history, diving, salvage, EOD, and mini-sub operations.

Great History Lesson
At just over 200 pages, this is a quick book to read, gives a lot of background on the cold war, US-Spanish relations, and the account of how a US B-52 crashed, loosing four H-bombs in 1966. We did find them all...eventually. We can be amused now since we won the Cold War and it was a long time ago, but back then, it was serious stuff. Finding anything at 2,500 feet under water before GPS and our advances in submersibles was a challenge. Careers, lives, US security, foreign relations were all at stake.

The book covers the tragedy of a mid air collision of a B-52 during in flight refueling over Spain , loss of life US aircrew, and miraculous facts that no one on the ground was hurt. 3 H-bombs fell on the ground, one in the ocean. There continues to be some radiation, how harmful is open for the reader to decide. We were able find the sunken bomb just as the Navy was about to quit the search.

There are enough maps and photos to help the reader. The author doesn't have to try to be funny - what the main characters said and did do that for her - one Air Force official was quoted as saying "we did not loose a H-bomb, we just don't know where it is right now". The sometimes strained relationships between those charged with finding the bomb are captured in detail providing the human element that makes this a very good book.

Recommended reading for those interested in the Cold War, the US Air Force, the 1960's and a very compelling story of what could have been a true disaster of huge proportions.

Interesting read but what about the facts!?
An interesting story and an entertaining read but who else has noticed that the author has a somewhat casual way of dealing with known (or so you'd think) facts? Take chapter 1 alone: first Mrs. Moran says that each of the 1.45 MT hydrogen bombs in Captain Wendorf's B-52 has 70 times the destructive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima (not quite correct seeing that the explosive energy of the Hiroshima bomb is generally accepted as 15 KT, at the most 18 KT, which doesn't quite add up), then she seems to confuse which bomb was dropped on which city, quote "dropped Fat Man and Little Boy on Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki, not Hiroshima, which would explain why her 70 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb doesn't add up: Fat Man was a 21 KT device, times 70 is almost exactly 1.45 MT).

A few pages later she drops the bomb on Hiroshima on the 7th of August (it was the 6th), then the second bomb on Nagasaki 9 days later (it was 3 days later) with Japan surrendering in the evening of the same day (Japan surrendered on the 15th of August, 6 days after Nagasaki). Where did a science writer like Mrs. Moran get this "history" from?

Such seemingly "small" errors always make me wonder what else in the book is incorrect in areas I don't happen to know much or anything about (which is why I'm reading a nonfiction book to begin with!).

I'm not in the book business, but in the course of the editing process don't publishers employ someone like a fact checker to make sure that the authors get at least their dates and numbers right!? If they don't, they should!

Anyway, it is an informative and entertaining read with lots of information you don't read in the papers about, so if you're interested in the Cold War, the Air Force or the nuclear defense program, by all means read it, just don't quote it in a million dollar game show!

(This review relates to the Kindle edition.)

How we lost and recovered the A-Bomb in Spain
A nice interesting read about a nuclear accident in the 1960s.SAC bombers flying at the Soviet Union crash with a tanker, and four bombs are lost over Spain.Three are quickly found.The last one has gone in the drink and is in deep water.Most of the book details the search for the last bomb.Both from a technical and scienctific standpoint, this is well documented and researched.

I thought this a very interesting topic and book.The author makes it very readable, and this was a quick fast read.She has not only made this interesting on the scienitific side, but also a page turner.


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Poorly researched, poorly written
Burleson's book seemed like a "cant-miss" proposition, but the author's poor writing and flawed research leaves much to be desired.On the one hand, the actual stories that he addresses have the potential to be very interesting.Sometime Burleson succeeds, and the reader can actually learn something.Most of the time, however, his writing is a mixture of spotty details and rambling explanations that vacillate between opposing viewpoints without any information to support his claims.In addition, by the time the reader reaches the half-way point of this book, it is painfully clear that Burleson is very much a pro-nuclear power thinker.While I don't begrudge him is point of view, I was incredibly disappointed with his lack of objectivity in "Nuclear Afternoon."

The only reason I gave this book two stars instead of one is that, in those few spots where the writing is well organized and objective, it is both entertaining and informations.Most of the time, however, "Nuclear Afternoon" is waste of time.

Don't buy this book
This is not a good book.

Allow me to explain.

I bought this book hoping for some accurate histories, collected in a single volume, of some of the more interesting accidents in nuclear history.Rather, what I got was a barely coherent rant, railing against the supposed dangers of nuclear power.I wouldn't have minded so much-I'm not particularly enamoured with the horribly confused and schizophrenic nuclear industry myself-but the book is riddled with inaccuracies.It even goes so far as to confuse radioactivity (the property of a material that causes it to produce radiation) with radiation (the emanations of such a material).This is important in a volume that concerns itself with dosimetry and the safety ramifications of nuclear technology.

I can't recommend this book.It's hysterical and relentlessly unbalanced.It's also stunningly badly written.Just don't buy it. ... Read more

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A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists--even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less--would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwhelming for local emergency response and health care systems to rescue and treat, even assuming that these systems and their personnel were not themselves incapacitated by the event.

The United States has been struggling for some time to address and plan for the threat of nuclear terrorism and other weapons of mass destruction that terrorists might obtain and use. The Department of Homeland Security recently contracted with the Institute of Medicine to hold a workshop, summarized in this volume, to assess medical preparedness for a nuclear detonation of up to 10 kilotons.

This book provides a candid and sobering look at our current state of preparedness for an IND, and identifies several key areas in which we might begin to focus our national efforts in a way that will improve the overall level of preparedness.
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On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the Cold War.

In penning this book, New York Times bestselling authors Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson drew upon their unprecedented access to more than eight million highly classified documents housed within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California—unseen by the public until now. Using his top secret clearances, Martin Anderson was able to access Ronald Reagan’s most privileged exchanges with subordinates and world leaders as well as the tactical record of how Reagan fought to win the Cold War and control nuclear weapons.

The most revelatory of these documents are the minutes of Reagan-chaired National Security Council meetings, the dozens of secret letters sent by Reagan to world leaders, and the eyewitness notes from Reagan-Gorbachev summits. Along with these findings, the authors use Reagan’s speeches, radio addresses, personal diaries, and other correspondence to develop a striking picture of a man whose incisive intelligence, uncanny instincts, and quiet self-confidence changed the course of history.

What emerges from this treasure trove of material is irrefutable evidence that Reagan intended from his first days in office to bring down the Soviet Union, that he considered eliminating nuclear weapons his paramount objective, and that he—not his subordinates—was the principal architect of the policies that ultimately brought the Soviets to the nuclear-arms negotiating table. The authors also affirm that many of Reagan’s ideas, including his controversial “Star Wars” missile-defense initiative, proved essential in dissolving the Soviet Union and keeping America safe.

Riveting and eye-opening, Reagan’s Secret War provides a front-row seat to history, a journey into the political mind of a remarkable leader, and proof that one man can, through the force of his deep convictions, bring about sweeping global change.


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Well written and insightful!
The book goes into great detail concerning President Reagan's attitude toward the removal of all nuclear weapons and how he slowly but surely convinced the Soviet Union to proced down that same path.Somewhat biased, but it is hard to put aside that admiration when the authors have spent so much time in that administration.A good choice for high school history or political science classes.

Too repetitive
Too much of the same rhetoric.Gets boring after a while.Had trouble finishing this book.

OK, he was a compulsive (and very charismatic) president who had the fortitude to stick to his agenda.He accomplished most of what he set out to do, and that's great.He was mostly good for the U.S. and that's also great.

The Iran-Contra debacle is glossed over, and that's not great.To portray a truly great President of the United States, one must dig deeply into the characters at play and the nasty failures.People need to know about that special office that brings out the best and the worst of human beings.He hated Communism to the extent that it often warped his judgment.This point needs more research and open-minded discussion.

Had the Andersons asked a few more questions (of survivors of that era) and carefully read more news archives, they perhaps could have written a book about a great president who does not deserve to be enshrined, but deserves our respect for doing the very best he could in a very difficult time in U.S. history.Reagen is way up there, but he hardly walked on water.

Not The Guy Portrayed In The Press
During the 1980s the press portrayed Reagan as an old, somewhat lazy and out of touch president.As the historical evidence continues to emerge the facts reveal something entirely different.

First there was the publication of Reagan's letters in 2002 (Reagan: A Life In Letters) followed by the publication of Reagan's diaries from his White House years in 2007 (The Reagan Diaries).Each reveals a different Reagan from the one portrayed in the media.In his own writings we see a visionary leader who understood democracy, grasped the threat of the Soviet Union, and clearly had a vision and plan for how to win the Cold War.

Martin and Annelise Anderson's wonderful new book, Reagan's Secret War, further solidifies Reagan as a thoughtful and forceful leader who knew precisely what he was doing in his negotiations with Moscow. Using his personal diaries plus recently declassified documents from the Reagan Library they reconstruct the complex and sometimes tenuous relationship between Reagan and several Soviet leaders, most notably Mikhail Gorbachev. What we see here is a leader who had a vision for peace, was clearly in charge, and had no problem challenging his numerous advisors who would have had him compromise at points where his firm stand would ultimately lead to the defeat of Soviet Communism and the end of the Cold War.

Reagan basically had three core principles:

1. A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought;
2. Always negotiate from a position of strength, and;
3. Trust but verify.

Sticking with these three principles Reagan would, along with Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II, lead the movement that would ultimately win the Cold War. For those of us old enough to remember the Reagan years, you will marvel at how close we came to nuclear war in 1983. I had no idea!

This is a well-written and worthwhile book.For students of history you will find the facts and insights presented here both informative and enlightening.

Husband loves the book!
Bought for my husband who is a big fan of Reagan and he wasn't disappointed!!Loved every read of it!

The Unprecedented Vision of a Persistent Man
Reagan's Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster

The Left, which clings to it's dogmatic characterizations of Reagan as a "hawk," "amiable dunce," and "manipulated by his advisors" is hereby challenged to read all of Reagan's Secret War.Intimate and thoroughly documented, Annalise and Martin Andersen immerse us in the top secret deliberations of President Reagan with both the National Security Council, and the changing heads of the Soviet Union, as he doggedly persues his decades-old dream of eliminating nuclear weapons.This page-turner has surprise after surprise as Reagan's own extensive writings, and de-classified, top-secret memos reveal his strategic foresight, wiley negotiating skills, unwavering resolve, and bold initiatives that repeatedly defied the recommendations of his top advisors.Clearly, Reagan lead the world out of the Cold War by his vision, relentless and focused vision, and hearfelt belief in God and the better nature of mankind.As the great man believed, "there is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit." If only every president had the comprehension of economic systems and the diplomacy skills of Reagan!

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