Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a
riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.
In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet
Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly
launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage
for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that
followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard
Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S.
participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the
compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human
history—its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its
effects on global politics today.
關於作者:
Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of
twentytwo books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and
a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dark Sun: The
Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was one of three finalists
for a Pulitzer Prize in History. He has received numerous
fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the
Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur
Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a
visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent
for documentaries on public television''s Frontline and
American Experience series. An affiliate of the Center for
International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, he
lectures frequently to audiences in the United States and
abroad.