Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the Nuclear Arms Race and the Cold War.
An affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, he lectures frequently to audiences in the United States and abroad..
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.
Sloan Foundation.
He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mac Arthur Foundation and the Alfred P.
About the Author: 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. 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.
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In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the Nuclear Arms Race and the Cold War
