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About the Author
John C. Wohlstetter is 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.
Praise for Sleepwalking with the Bomb
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.
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.
Copyright Notice
Copyright © 2012 by John C. Wohlstetter. All Rights Reserved.
Library Cataloging Data
Sleepwalking with the Bomb by John C. Wohlstetter
266 pages, 6 x 9 x 0.6 inches & 0.87 lb, 229 x 152 x 15 mm. & 0.396 kg
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012940396
ISBN-13 978-1-936599066 (paperback)
BISAC: HIS027030 History/Military/Nuclear Warfare
BISAC: POL001000 Political Science/International Relations/Arms Control
BISAC: HIS032000 History/Europe/Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Publisher Information
Discovery Institute Press, 208 Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98104
Internet: http://www.discoveryinstitutepress.com/
Published in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
First Edition, First Printing. June 2012.