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Closing Pandora's Box : Arms Races, Arms Control, and the History of the Cold War
by Glynn, Patrick
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465098096
- ISBN 13
- 9780465098095
- Seller
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Garrison, North Dakota, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Republic / Basic Books, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A fascinating history of the 'Cold War' arms races and the various arms control efforts, propaganda, patient diplomacy, and treaties that ultimately restored a peacful but tense - and temporary - equilibrium to the world. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains notes, indexed, 445pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare, especially in this condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- JB Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00006167
- Title
- Closing Pandora's Box : Arms Races, Arms Control, and the History of the Cold War
- Author
- Glynn, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0465098096
- ISBN 13
- 9780465098095
- Publisher
- New Republic / Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- US HISTORY, COLD WAR, ARMS CONTROL, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, TREATIES, RACE RACES, SOVIET UNION, USSR, RUSSIA, RUSSIANS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, DIPLOMACY, FOREIGN POLICY, GENERAL MILITARY, EUROPEAN WEAPONRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; General Military; European History;
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JB Books
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JB Books
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Garrison, North Dakota
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- Jacket
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- Brodart
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- Fine
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