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Author and historian Fred Kaplan discusses his new book, "The Bomb," which takes readers behind the scenes for a look at how American presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war, from the dawn of the atomic age until now.
Author and historian Fred Kaplan discusses his new book, "The Bomb," which takes readers behind the scenes for a look at how American presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and, in some cases, just barely avoided nuclear war, from the dawn of the atomic age until now.
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