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Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War

Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War Paperback - 2001

by FitzGerald, Frances

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fitzgerald shows how Ronald Reagan, was able to initiate S.D.I., the Star Wars missile defense program. She shows that the idea of a perfect defense against nuclear attack was a dream and not possible, yet he managed to get billions in funding.

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  • Title Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
  • Author FitzGerald, Frances
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Touchstone E
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Date 2001-03-12
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002769687
  • ISBN 9780743200233 / 0743200233
  • Weight 1.91 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.01 x 1.41 in (23.06 x 15.27 x 3.58 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99059913
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.9

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First line

ON MARCH 23, 1983, President Reagan announced that after consultations with the Joint Chiefs of Staff he had decided to embark on a long-range research-and development effort to counter the threat of Soviet ballistic missiles and to make these nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete."

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/2002, Page 1085
  • Business Week, 07/02/2001, Page 22
  • New York Times, 03/18/2001, Page 24

About the author

Frances Fitzgerald is the acclaimed author of America Revised and Cities on a Hill. Her study of the Vietnam War, Fire in the Lake, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City