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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Graham's book is both a memoir and an excellent history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, with which he was involved for more than 30 years. . . . [I]t is an intimate history of events in which he was a major player."
* Choice *
"The SALT, the START, the ABM—Graham had a role in them all, and his detailed descriptions of the skirmishes among presidents, cabinet secretaries, and members of Congress through six White House administrations make for a comprehensive history of American arms control."
* Publishers Weekly *
"Provides a fascinating composite picture of the limits and possibilities of the legal-diplomatic approach to security and arms control. Graham and his colleagues were constantly forced to maneuver between their determined Soviet counterparts and the equally strong-willed politicians and bureaucrats in Washington. . . . Also illuminating are his chapters on the failed SALT II during the Carter and Reagan years and the rise of hard-line critics of arms control, showing the origins of the split in American strategic thinking that continues today. More optimistically, Graham concludes by pointing to the most lasting arms control success: the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which made the acquisition of nuclear weapons an act of international outlawry."
-- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *
"[This book] is a very important historical document and will undoubtedly be consulted by historians of arms control and American foreign policy in the late twentieth century. Students of bureaucratic politics and organizational behavior will also find in this book a rich mine of ase study material."
* Political Science Quarterly *
Table of ContentsForeword by Paul H. Nitze
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Politics, Louisville and Washington, D.C.
2. Chemical and Biological Weapons
3. SALT I
4. SALT II, Part One: The Nixon-Ford Years
5. SALT II, Part Two: The Carter Years
6. The Reagan Revolution and the INF and START Treaties
7. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
8. Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty
9. Survival of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
10. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
11. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
12. NPT Aftermath and the End of the ACDA
Epilogue
Conclusions
Glossary
Index
