Chairman Mao and his "paper tigers".

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I quote a lot of good books in this episode, so here is a list:

Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Yang Jisheng

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, by Frank Dikotter

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy by Lawrence Freedman

The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad

The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

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