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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
- Narrated by: Kevin F Spalding
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat. Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling, vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger our security rather than securing it. This book traces his thought process as he journeys from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to crafting a defense strategy in the Carter Administration to offset the Soviets' numeric superiority in conventional forces, to presiding over the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007, with George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear dangers.
The book is published by Stanford University Press.
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- 24-03-20
If you have misophonia read this review!
I havent quite finished this book yet. 2 hours to go. but I had to get this out to people. The content of this book is very good. Very insightful and gives some great details of major happenings concerning nuclear weapons and or war. Possibly a little self serving, but this is obviously a great man so there you go.
Let's get to the issues with this Audiobook. I am not criticising the narrator at all, but giving people with misophonia a very honest heads up prior to buying this title. Misophonia is simply where certain sounds etc. trigger emotional responses in someone.
The narrator has a speech impediment that leads to a lisp. You can hear his tongue move in his mouth into the wrong positions, which causes the lisp, and also causes 'p' and 't' to almost click when spoken. I was at the point of tearing my hair out of head. It made me anxious, very frustrated, and at times, even angry. Its not his fault but it's there that he hasn't ever developed the correct use of his tongue to speak and the sounds produced are something that I struggle with for some reason via my misophonia. I am really having to push myself to finish and it's almost painful for me. Imagine Toyah Wilcox but not quite as harsh maybe. I recommend to anyone who has problems like I do with speech impediments or types of speech, to listen to the preview, unlike I did. I would rather have read the text version and probably would have gotten more out of the content at times.
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