The brink
Subtitle: President Reagan and the nuclear war scare of 1983
By: Marc Ambinder
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781476760377
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Cold War; Military History; Nuclear crisis control; Government policy; Military maneuvers; Foreign relations; History
Description: The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Decapitation; title: Détente's rise and fall; title: Toward protracted nuclear war; title: Decapitation; title: Man in the gap; title: Project RYAN; title: Warning; title: Zero-zero; title: Ivy League '82; title: Bogging down; title: The view from London; title: Part II: To the brink; title: 1983; title: The Evil Empire; title: SDI and sabotage; title: Provocations; title: Diamonds; title: Spy vs. spy; title: Green shoots; title: The Phantom (part I); title: The Phantom (part II); title: The day before the day after; title: Able Archer 83; title: FLASH telegram; title: Validate and authenticate; title: Open hatches; title: Part III: Endgame(s); title: Sacrifice; title: Warning of war; title: Ivan and Anya; title: What did we miss?; title: Arguing on behalf of Soviet fears; title: How can this be?; title: Roll the dice; title: A new hope, but still, star wars?; title: Not to miss the chance; title: To Geneva; title: Epilogue.