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"The Dead Hand" combined with "Command and Control" (http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788/ http://www.amazon.com/Comma
by dmpk2k 12y ago
"The Dead Hand" combined with "Command and Control" (http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788/ http://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illu...) makes for very sobering reading. Put the two together, and it's a genuine miracle that nothing bad happened. Of course, we're not out of the woods...
Both are excellent books, BTW, so I agree with the parent poster's recommendation.
- arethuza 12y agoAlso "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War" - which is pretty alarming even when we know how it all worked out: http://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev/dp/1400078911 http://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev...