The Dead Hand

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David E. Hoffman is a contributing editor at The Washington Post and author of The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. He lives in Maryland.

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Also by David E. Hoffman

The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia

Copyright

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 2010

Copyright © 2009 by David E. Hoffman

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2009.

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:

Hoffman, David E. (David Emanuel)

The dead hand : the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy / David E. Hoffman.— 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Arms race—History—20th century. 2. Nuclear disarmament—History—20th century. 3. Cold War. 4. Cold War—Influence. 5. Reagan, Ronald—Political and social views. 6. Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931—Political and social views. 7. United States—Foreign relations—Soviet Union. 8. Soviet Union—Foreign relations—United States. I. Title.

U264.H645 2009

909.82’5—dc22

2009016751

eISBN: 978-0-385-53217-4

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