About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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