What You're Not Supposed To Know About The Arms Race

What You're Not Supposed to Know about the Arms RaceEarly on the Morning of July 27, 1960, I was participating in a classroom exercise at the First Marine Division's ABC (Atomic, Biological and Chemical Warfare) School at Camp Pendleton, California. My job that morning was to plot the theoretical destruction of a city by a nuclear warhead. In this case, the city chosen for the exercise was Chicago. There was some irony in that: Chicago was the city where I had been born and raised and where my p...