![]() ![]() intelligence organizations finally realized the danger. With Soviet aircraft loaded with nuclear bombs warming up on East German runways, U.S. In the fall of 1983, when NATO staged a larger than usual series of field exercises that included, uniquely, a practice run-up to a nuclear attack, the Soviet military came very close to launching a defensive first strike on Europe and North America. ![]() In a narrative that reads like a thriller, Rhodes reveals how the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s led ailing Soviet leader Yuri Andropov to conclude that Reagan must be preparing for a nuclear war. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Making of the Atomic the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war-and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons. ![]()
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