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What the Cold War Meant to Those Who Fought It Daily |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Arnold Beichman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 867 Words, 5,368 Characters |
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AT THE ABYSS: AN INSIDER'S HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR
By Thomas C. Reed
Introduction by former President George Bush
Ballantine Books, $25.95, 368 pages, illus.
If you enter "Cold War" into the Google window and click "Search," you will get 6.7 million hits. But as John Stuart Mill wrote, "On all great subjects much remains to be said," and of none is this truer than the Cold War.
This book by a weightily credentialed Thomas Reed adds considerable new information on how the Cold War was fought. Reed is the former secretary of the Air Force, and was special assistant to President Ronald Reagan for national security policy and a Lawrence Livermore National La...
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...alin died, but I hadn't heard the warfarin "theory." Is this "theory" to be found in any Russian archives, any KGB archives, or any archives at all? I know of none.
Let me put it this way: Where Reed talks about the American scene, especially the missile story, there is much in his revelations. But when he ventures beyond the American border, beware.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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