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Team B: The Reality Behind the Myth

- Abstract

To understand the evolution in American strategic thinking regarding nuclear war it is worthwhile recalling the episode of “Team B” which occurred ten years ago as a result of the decision of the then-Director of Central Intelligence, George Bush, to com



About the Author

Richard Pipes is professor of history emeritus at Harvard and the author most recently of Russian Conservatism and Its Critics (Yale).