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Item Information       Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Ambinder, Marc.     Subjects     North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- History -- 20th century.     Military maneuvers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Nuclear crisis control -- History -- 20th century.     Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Cold War.     Europe -- History, Military -- 20th century.     United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.     Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ambinder, Marc.       by title:      The brink : presiden...       by call number:      973.927 A492b     Search the Web     Ambinder, Marc.     North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- History -- 20th century.     Military maneuvers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Nuclear crisis control -- History -- 20th century.     Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Cold War.     Europe -- History, Military -- 20th century.     United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.     Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.       MARC Display

The brink : president Reagan and the nuclear war scare of 1983 / Marc Ambinder. by Ambinder, Marc. Simon & Schuster, 2018. Call #: 973.927 A492b Subjects North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- History -- 20th century.   Military maneuvers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.   Nuclear crisis control -- History -- 20th century.   Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Cold War.   Europe -- History, Military -- 20th century.   United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.   Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.   United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. ISBN:  9781476760377 (hc.) Alternate title:  President Reagan and the nuclear war scare of 1983 Description:  xx, 364 p. : ill., portrait, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index. Summary:  "What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) into the field, placing them on a three-minute alert Marc Ambinder explains the anxious period between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984, with the “Able Archer ’83” war game at the center of the tension. With astonishing and clarifying new details, he recounts the scary series of the close encounters that tested the limits of ordinary humans and powerful leaders alike. Ambinder provides a comprehensive and chilling account of the nuclear command and control process, from intelligence warnings to the composition of the nuclear codes themselves. And he affords glimpses into the secret world of a preemptive electronic attack that scared the Soviet Union into action. Ambinder’s account reads like a thriller, recounting the spy-versus-spy games that kept both countries—and the world—in check. From geopolitics in Moscow and Washington, to sweat-caked soldiers fighting in the trenches of the Cold War, to high-stakes war games across NATO and the Warsaw Pact, “Ambinder’s account of a serious threat of global annihilation...is spellbinding...a masterpiece of recent history” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Brink serves as the definitive intelligence, nuclear, and national security history of one of the most precarious times in recent memory and “shows the consequences of nuclear buildups, sometimes-careless language, and nervous leaders. Now, more than ever, those consequences matter” (USA TODAY)."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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