“…Diverse in its topics and disciplinary approaches, Nuclear Threats, Nuclear Fear and the Cold War of the 1980s makes a fundamental contribution to the emerging historiography of the 1980s as a whole. As of now, the era's nuclear tensions have been addressed by scholars mostly from the standpoint of security studies, focused on the geo-strategic deliberations of political elites and at the level of state policy. …”
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“…Keegan se atreve a esbozar un quinto líder, que surgirá de la era nuclear: un posthéroe que basará sus decisiones en la racionalidad y en los cálculos, y cuyo objetivo será evitar la guerra más que ganarla…”