"I wrote this book as a consequence of being obsessed, I would say, with the insanity of the Cold War. It struck me in the '80s, and I suppose in the late '70s, that the fact that two armed camps had appeared in the world, each of which was poised to destroy the other utterly, and themselves at the same time, was a problem of such paramount importance that nothing else was worth thinking about."

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