Tickling the Dragon's Tail

<p><strong>Why is the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before?</strong></p><p></p><p>In Tickling the Dragon's Tail readers are taken deep inside the political and military decisions that have shaped our nuclear age. From the bombing of Hiroshima to near-catastrophes like the Cuban Missile Crisis and a NATO exercise that almost triggered World War III this gripping history uncovers the hidden motivations and power struggles behind America's atomic policy.</p><p></p><p>With chilling clarity and meticulous research Kaplan reveals how the United States used the quest for nuclear supremacy to shape global politics and foreign relations-often at staggering risk. </p><p></p><p><strong>Readers will discover disturbing truths including:</strong></p><p></p><p>Why top U.S. generals believed the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary.</p><p>The U.S. spared six Japanese cities from its devastating conventional bombing campaign so they would be available as targets for the atomic bomb.</p><p>How the U.S. made nuclear threats at least 25 times since WW II.</p><p>The unsettling authority local commanders have to launch nuclear attacks.</p><p>And how America's quest to be the world's sole superpower fuels today's growing nuclear danger.</p><p></p><p>This book is a sobering call to reexamine the forces that brought us to the brink-and continue to steer us toward a perilous future.</p>