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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Abridged)

By David Hoffman
Narrated by: Bob Walter
Abridged — 9 hours, 36 minutes
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By David Hoffman
Narrated by: Bob Walter
Abridged — 9 hours, 36 minutes

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“A tour de force of investigative history.” -Steve Coll

The Dead Hand
is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union-a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today.


The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill. In the last half of the twentieth century the two superpowers had perfected the science of mass destruction and possessed nu...