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How did we end up living in a terrifying reality of potential nuclear annihilation?
A timely and sober book ... a trenchant and stimulating analysis of nuclear deterrence
A wise observer of how close we came to Armageddon
Braithwaite ... is on top form.
Personal experience plus careful study have given him a remarkable platform from which he brilliantly dissects the ethical dilemmas.
Scintillating.
Rodric Braithwaite has produced a masterly history of the nuclear age just in time since its dangers are back with a vengeance. Our leaders must take the lessons in this meticulous and revelatory narrative ...
Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author whose long Foreign Office career took him to Indonesia, Poland, Italy, America and Russia. He was British Ambassador in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union, which he described in Across the Moscow River (2002, Yale). Rodric Braithwaite was subsequently foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister, John Major, and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. He is author of Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan (Profile Books), and Moscow 1941 (Profile Books), a bestseller translated into nineteen languages.