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  First Edition of Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe; Inscribed by Graham Allison to Secretary Madeleine K. Albright

  ALLISON, Graham [Madeleine K. Albright].

  Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.

  New York: Times Books, 2004.

  First edition of this informative work on nuclear terrorism and how to prevent it. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Madeleine, With great admiration and hope G." The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that we don’t need any of those three “Ds” to happen.” After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. For Albright’s contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Near fine in a near fine dust ...

  Price: $475.00     Item Number: 147591

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