Just got through reading &quot;The Dead Hand&quot;, which is the story of the end of the Cold War. Highly recommended for those interested in how it all played out.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B002PXFYPQ&#x2F;ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&amp;btkr=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;product&#x2F;B002PXFYPQ&#x2F;ref=dp-kindle-re...</a><p>It&#x27;s frankly amazing that this hasn&#x27;t happened much sooner. The amount of biological, chemical, and nuclear material lying around the former Soviet Union, basically guarded by people with starvation-level salaries and no future, was beyond alarming.<p>In fact, as bad as this is, the chemical and biological material was much worse. Some of that stuff could take out a city, then proceed to decimate an entire nation. Extremely scary stuff.