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Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s tells the story of how the "Me Decade" transformed into the final phase of the Cold War. Starting in the final months of 1978 and extending throughout 1979 the period of torpor, malaise, and polyester was replaced by revolution in Iran, near-meltdown at Three Mile Island, tectonic shifts in China, the reworking of the intelligence authority, and the onset of a proxy war between the US and USSR in Afghanistan. Through prodigious research, including material obtained through the author's Freedom of Information Act requests, this is a story of how the seventies ended before the decade was over.
