Title: From Hiroshima to Glasnost :
Authors: Nitze, Paul Henry,; Rearden, Steven L.; Smith, Ann M.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld,
Physical description: xxii, 504 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC class: E
Abstract: From Hiroshima to Glasnost offers Ambassador Paul H. Nitze's reflections on the issues he has faced, the decisions he has made, the people he has known, and the presidents he has served in his almost fifty years inside the top echelons of Washington policy circles.
Contents: War and the Heritage of War -- The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey -- The Marshall Plan -- The Berlin blockade, the Palais Rose Conference, and Jim Forrestal's Suicide -- The H-Bomb Decision and NSC 68 -- War in Korea -- Building "Situations of Strength" -- The Eisenhower Succession -- The Loyal Opposition -- Toward a Military Strategy -- The Kennedy Renewal -- The Little State Department -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- McNamara's Pentagon -- The Vietnam Imbroglio -- SALT I: Getting Started -- SALT I: Reaching Agreement -- SALT II -- The INF Negotiations -- The Nuclear-Space Talks -- The Search for a Non-Zero-Sum Outcome -- The View from Moscow.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.