John Wohlstetter - Sleepwalking with the Bomb

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John C. Wohlstetteris a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a trustee of the Hudson Institute, author of The Long War Ahead and the Short War Upon Us , and founder of the issues blog Letter from the Capitol . He has published numerous articles in a variety of publications and is a regular radio commentator.

John Wohlstetter has given us a tour de force of our Troubled nuclear condition, its roots and its prospects. It’s all here: an insightful history of the nuclear aspect of the Cold War and its crises, fictional as well as real; the chilling prospects of nuclear-armed rogue states and terrorists; the dangerous links between civilian nuclear power for the grid and nuclear weapons; the fuzzy and counterproductive dreams of the zero nukes movement.

For many years Sleepwalking With the Bomb will be the standard against which all other work on nuclear issues will be measured.

R. JAMES WOOLSEY, FORMER DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, CHAIRS THE FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES.

In these perilous times of nuclear Jihad and amputational pacifism we acutely need John Wohlstetter’s Reverean ride through the night, ringing out strategic alarms and insights in the grand tradition of Herman Kahn and Albert Wohlstetter. Sleepwalking With the Bomb is as lucid, sophisticated, and wide awake as America’s current leadership is muddled, naive, and somnambulant.

GEORGE GILDER, AUTHOR OF THE ISRAEL TEST (ENCOUNTER BOOKS, 2012) AND WEALTH & POVERTY (REGNERY, 2012).

Copyright © 2012 by John C. Wohlstetter. All Rights Reserved.

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