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　　Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a

riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.

In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet

Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly

launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage

for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that

followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard

Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S.

participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the

compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human

history—its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its

effects on global politics today.

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　　Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of

twentytwo books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb,

which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and

a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dark Sun: The

Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was one of three finalists

for a Pulitzer Prize in History. He has received numerous

fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the

Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur

Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a

visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent

for documentaries on public television's Frontline and

American Experience series. An affiliate of the Center for

International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, he

lectures frequently to audiences in the United States and

abroad.

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媒体评论

　　“A gripping narrative of the paranoia, cynicism, bureaucratic

infighting and manipulation that brought the world close to

annihilation.”

　　—San Francisco Chronicle

　　“Every age finds the writers it needs, and the nuclear age has

found Richard Rhodes.”

　　—The Nation

　　“Throughout his assiduously researched work, Rhodes cites

stunning statistics to support his contention that the nuclear

competition has run amok . . . dense with crucial, revealing

information obtained from personal interviews and newly

declassified documents, Rhodes’s Arsenals of Folly is a dramatic

and penetrating investigation of the nuclear arms race and its

eventual end.”

　　—The Philadelphia Inquirer

　　“A terrifying overview of the global potential for

killing.”

　　—The Economist

　　“Rhodes performs the remarkable feat of reconstructing all the

niggling, the misunderstanding, the moments of obtuseness in a way

that proves dramatic precisely in its repetitiveness and

frustration.”

　　—Newsday

　　“His artful narrative contains some real gems.”

　　—New York Times Book Review

　　“Highly detailed and gripping . . . a chilling conclusion.”

　　—Scientific American

　　“Rich and riveting . . . a splendid writer . . .

harrowing.”

　　—Los Angeles Times Book Review

　　“Using an impressive range of sources, clean writing and a clear

sense of the dramatic, Rhodes triumphs.”

　　—Rocky Mountain News

　　“As a contribution to our understanding of the latter half of the

20th century, Rhodes’s achievement is on a par with Taylor Branch’s

America in the King Years trilogy and Robert Caro’s monumental

ongoing biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.”

　　—The Mercury News (San Jose, CA)

　　“Rhodes is not only an outstanding researcher and historian, he

is a superb writer who enraptures the reader with a gripping

narrative. Upon reading this important book, one will walk away

ruminating on the unspeakable horror of the nuclear apocalypse that

was, it often seems miraculously, avoided during the Cold

War.”

　　—The Sunday Star-Ledger

　　“Stylistically, Arsenals of Folly is often quite distinguished.

The impressive opening chapter–which describe the Chernobyl

disaster in a controlled but morbidly involving tone–is an

achievement . . . as an allegory of manipulated intelligence,

miscalculation, and fatal ideology, it is alarmingly

relevant.”

　　—The Tennessean

　　“No finer manual for learning from the mistakes of our past than

[this] valuable book.”

　　—Seed magazine

　　“Detailed and dramatic . . . devastating commentary on the

perilous nature of the nuclear arms race.”

　　—Houston Chronicle

　　“Intriguing insight . . . Rhodes masterfully dissects decades of

what he considers reckless and misguided policy decisions that led

the United States and the Soviet Union to expand their nuclear

arsenals beyond all logic . . . The author’s deftly painted

character portraits–he mentions Gorbachev’s “southern Russian

accent and hillbilly grammar”–make for an engrossing

narrative.”

　　—The American Heritage

　　“Absorbing . . . “

　　—The Seattle Times

　　“With skillful insight, Richard Rhodes has woven accounts by

Soviet and American insiders into a dark and troubling history of

superpower insanity. He makes you wonder when we'll wake up, since

some of the American villains keep coming back to haunt us: Cheney,

Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle.”

　　—David Shipler, Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams

　　“Richard Rhodes, our leading historian of nuclear weapons, has

written a powerful, clear-eyed account of the nuclear arms race,

focusing on Mikhail Gorbachev as the heroic figure in the history

of mankind’s 20th Century flirtation with oblivion. Rhodes gives

the still-neglected happy ending to that flirtation the sweeping,

insightful, and compelling treatment it deserves. So yes, this is

an “important” book, but it reads like a political thriller.”

　　—Robert G. Kaiser, Why Gorbachev Happened

　　“Compelling . . . an insightful chronicle of epoch-shaping

events.”

　　—Booklist

　　"Rhodes accomplishes what neither American nor Soviet political

cultures could manage over a half-century of nuclear cold war–to

find the flesh-and-blood human reality on both sides. Rich with

revelation, insight and detail, riveting as a powerful novel,

Arsenals of Folly is transcendent history, haunting our memory and

experience."

　　—Roger Morris, Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their

America

书籍介绍

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.

In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human history—its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its effects on global politics today.