Bud Struggle
16th February 2010, 01:56
Here's an interesting interview by Terry Gross of David Hoffman author of The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy. Hoffman, covered the White House during the Reagan years for the Washington Post and later became the paper's Moscow bureau chief and assistant managing editor for foreign news. You can either listen to the podcast or read the transcript from the link.
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
In one popular version of recent history, President Ronald Reagan precipitated the end of the Cold War through his words, tear down this wall, and through his decision to pursue the Strategic Defense Initiative, a missile shield that was nicknamed Star Wars. My guest, David Hoffman, is the author of a book that reveals how Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev really reacted to those two things and credits Gorbachev for being the agent of change in the Cold War.
The book, "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy," uses new evidence - contemporaneous documents, diaries, as well as new interviews - to investigate how Gorbachev and Reagan actually viewed each other and the dangers we faced from Soviet weapons we didn't even know existed...
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
In one popular version of recent history, President Ronald Reagan precipitated the end of the Cold War through his words, tear down this wall, and through his decision to pursue the Strategic Defense Initiative, a missile shield that was nicknamed Star Wars. My guest, David Hoffman, is the author of a book that reveals how Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev really reacted to those two things and credits Gorbachev for being the agent of change in the Cold War.
The book, "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy," uses new evidence - contemporaneous documents, diaries, as well as new interviews - to investigate how Gorbachev and Reagan actually viewed each other and the dangers we faced from Soviet weapons we didn't even know existed...
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13