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Name: Black Box: KAL 007 and the Superpowers
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Author: Dallin, Alexander
ISBN: 9780520358713

by Alexander Dallin

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On September 1, 1983, a Soviet fighter plane shot down a South Korean commercial airliner, KAL 007, killing all 269 persons aboard. Why did the jet stray hundreds of miles off course and fly for hours over Soviet territory, including sensitive nuclear and submarine installations? And why did the Soviets decide that that plane had to be brought down? These are the major questions this book addresses. It is the first book-length exploration of all the available information, and it weighs each of the hypotheses that has been advanced here and abroad to explain the dramatic episode, which led to a Soviet-American confrontation just as relations between the two super powers seemed to be on the verge of improvement. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

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"Black Box combines the suspense of a spy shriller and the investigative ingenuity of a detective mystery with the careful and well-informed judgments of one of this country's most distinguished experts on the Soviet Union. We may never know the complete story of what happened to KAL 007, but this inquiry into what we do know is not likely soon to be surpassed." --John Lewis Gaddis "That dramatic spisode has found a superb chronicler. Professor Dallin not only tells the tale with narrative skill; he analyzes the background and consequences of the events with great insight. The book is an inspiring example of what can happen when the craft of an historian and scholar is brought to bear on contemporary affairs." --Strobe Talbott "An admirable job of assembling the available information and dispassionately examining the theories. His is an important book." --New York Times Book Review "Dallin's book is particularly helpful in understanding the state of U.S.-Soviet relations and the two countries' reactions after the incident." --Washington Post