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Robert Kennedy recounts the details of his brother's direction of the American response to the Cuban missile crisis.

Traces the origins of the nuclear arms race of the mid-twentieth century, focusing on the story of "First Lightning, " the 1949 Soviet test bomb.

Traces the history of the Cold War, revealing the factors that created the conflict, the impact it had on the world, and the lasting effects it has had on world ideologies, economies, and powers.

Traces the development of rockets and spaceflight from German experiments before World War II to the manned moon landings, and provides biographies on two scientists, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev.

Chronicles the secret psychological warfare programs America developed at the height of the Cold War and explains how those propaganda campaigns targeted virtually every country in the free world.

Discusses the role President Reagan and his administrative staff had in ending the Cold War and developing a stronger relationship with the Soviet Union.

Chronicles the lives of the five Russian ambassadors President Roosevelt placed in Moscow in 1933, and describes the events that took place while they were there and the relationships the ambassadors had with Stalin and Roosevelt.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 and examines both Kennedy and Khrushchev as they attempted to jockey for power over nuclear armament in Cuba, how the Kennedy administration reacted, and the public response to the situation.

Povides an insider's account of espionage maneuvers in Berlin between America's CIA and Russia's KGB from 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.