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Fred M. Kaplan

Fred M. Kaplan
Fred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for Slate and the author of five previous books, Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller), 1959, Daydream Believers, and The Wizards of Armageddon. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone. The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War is out now from Simon & Schuster.


How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

Fred Kaplan on the Nuclear First-Strike Dilemma
January 31, 2020  By Fred M. Kaplan
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