Red Mercury, Part 2
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The History of Red Mercury
The fall of the Iron Curtain is exactly when the West started learning all kinds of things out about what was going on at the other end of the Cold War. The main group of people who were ambivalent about the end of the USSR were a specific class of experts. Putting an end to the largest nuclear power in history raised the risk of nuclear Armageddon.
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