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Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War

Contributor(s): Maloney, Sean M (Author)

ISBN: 9781574886160

Publisher: Potomac Books

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Pub Date: August 1, 2007

Dewey: 355.02170971

LCCN: 2006034892

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.69" H x 9.26" L x 6.34" W ( 1.98 lbs) 400 pages

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Description: Offers controversial data and conclusions about Canada's management of nuclear weapons and of its image on the world stage; Based on newly declassified Canadian and U.S. documents from the 1950s and 1960s

Brief description: Sean M. Maloney is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada and served as the Canadian Army's historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of several books, including Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War (Potomac Books, 2007) and Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films (Potomac Books, 2020).

Review Quotes: "Sean Maloney is one of my favorite observers of the contemporary geopolitical scene. He is that rarest of academic creatures--a fun read. He is direct, uncompromising, brilliant, and takes no prisoners. Enduring the Freedom . . . is a superb book."--Lester Grau, author of The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost

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