Sean M. Maloney is a professor of history at Royal Military College and served as the Canadian Army’s historian for the war in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2014. He is the author of Enduring the Freedom: A Rogue Historian in Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2005), Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada’s Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War (Potomac Books, 2007), and Operation Kinetic: Stabilizing Kosovo (Potomac Books, 2018). For more information about the author visit seanmmaloney.com.
"I’m pleased to have read Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove and will
keep it on my shelf for reference. I wish I’d had Maloney’s book on
hand when I wrote the Cold War chapter for my 2014 book about
cinema and historical memory, War on the Silver Screen. Maloney
knows as much as can be known about nuclear weapons procedures and
his knowledge on the authors and content of the novels adapted into
Cold War movies is vast and inviting. There is much more to the
film and literature of the Cold War than Dr. Strangelove and Fail
Safe. Maloney offers a fascinating survey."—David
Luhrssen, Shepherd Express
"Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove is a worthwhile study that sheds
light on an important slice of Cold War history. It will urge
readers to explore—or revisit—a fascinating body of film narratives
and wonder what really happened and what might have been."—Hiroshi
Kitamura, Strategy Bridge
"Very informative and capturing."—Alexander
Ebert, Popcultureshelf.com
“In his introduction, Sean Maloney writes: ‘The further we get away
from those dangerous years, the more art takes over from life,
history, and reality.’ These words set the stage for his detailed
and factual account, validated by meticulous research, of an era as
experienced by this Cold War Strategic Air Command veteran.”—Lt.
Col. Earl J. McGill, USAF (Ret.), author of Jet Age Man: SAC B-47
and B-52 Operations in the Early Cold War
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