TY - BOOK AU - Rhodes,Richard TI - Arsenals of folly: the making of the nuclear arms race SN - 9781847371188 (hbk.) AV - U 264 R477a 2008 U1 - 355.021709045 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Nuclear weapons KW - United States KW - Soviet Union KW - Arms race KW - Armas nucleares KW - Estados Unidos KW - Unión Soviética KW - Carrera de armamentos N1 - Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007; "Pulitzer prize- winning author of the making of the atomic bomb" T p. cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-357) and index; A rigid system: To the Chernobyl Sarcophagus-- Moscow does not believe in tears-- Ahierachy of Vassals and chiefs-- Apes on a treadmill: The bomber will always get through (I)--The bomber will always get through (II)-- The sorcerer's apprentices (I)-- The sorcerer's apprentices (II)-- Decapitation-- Rehearsing Armageddon-- The warheads will always get through-- Common security: Going aroound in circles-- Naysayers hard at work-- Looking over the horizon- The sovereign right to choose-- The little suitcase ER -