This history of arms control in the 20th century challenges the liberal-pacifist view of international relations, and explains the Cold War from a post-Cold War perspective, untangling the complex realities of 20th-century diplomacy, and analyzing the major crises and wars. It re-evaluates the successes and failures of democratic statesmen in the light of the Cold War's ultimate outcome.
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The author takes advantage of his years of experience to explain the problems and fantasies of the arms control cult in the West going back over a century. I would have assigned this as required reading for my class in "Strategic Weapons and Arms Control" but was shocked to find it was out of print.
A scholarly but partisan and one-sided view of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race written by an academic at the American Enterprise Institute. With endorsements by Jeane Kirkpatrick and Elliott Abrams, if you want to read the Reagan-won-the-Cold War/anti-arms control viewpoint, this is the book for you.