The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

David Hoffman, Assistant Managing Editor for Foreign News at the Washington Post, shares his research for the book "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy" with staff and students at a luncheon seminar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. http://cns.miis.edu. He talks about a large amount of new information that allows us to re-evaluate Mikhail Gorbachev's role as a leader of the Soviet Union and one of the agents of change in slowing down the arms race.

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[TalksWithDirt]

@rog197236 It just goes to show you, you cannot enter into treaties without a verification regime.

[rog197236]

I just purchased this man's book The Dead Hand and it is very chilling knowing what the United States and the Soviet Union were planning to do to kill off mankind.Gave me a look at how Reagan really felt about nuclear weapons and just wanted them to be gone...period!.What really freaked me out was how the Soviets kept manufacturing bio weapons what was the Soviets really thinking back in them days...Yet we as a world are still alive....crazy!!!!!!