Newhouse quotes two professors of government who have studied the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks. Invoking the old penguin chestnut, one asked the other if he didn't now know more about SALT than he cared to? His colleague answered, ""I've learned more about SALT than there is to know."" This book by Newhouse leaves one with the former sentiment unless there is great prior interest in the technicalities of arms limitations and the history of SALT's coming to be. Newhouse cogitates about the political implications, but it is hard to get an overview of the bargaining strategies amid all the chips. The fact does emerge that Brezhnev, in his yearning for detente, has made more concessions than Nixon in the agreements signed last year. How SALT fits into the general Nixon-Kissinger policymaking system is examined; when Nixon finally picked up the question of arms limitation talks after the Czech invasion had aborted earlier plans, he was displeased to see that an ad hoc crew of middling bureaucrats had developed a negotiating stance tailored to the Joint Chiefs' views. As a series of, say, New Yorker pieces the book would be delightful. And it certainly has merit as a documentary and a touchstone for debate. At a sitting; though, its input overkills.

Cold Dawn: The Story of SALT

Politics & Social Sciences

Newhouse, John

Politics & Government

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Just before midnight on May 26, 1972, Richard M. Nixon and Leonid I. Brezhnev met in St. Vladimir Hall in the Kremlin to sign an agreement that some have hailed as a path toward peace and other have condemned as a threat to American security.  Whatever the judgment, the arms-limitation agreement that came out of that midnight summit is the most important turning point in big-power politics since the onset of the cold war.  Today, as the superpowers return to the bargaining table, what lessons can be learned from the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I)? Cold Dawn is the definitive account of one of the first attempts to stabilize the superpower balance and to slow the race for strategic advantage.  In John Newhouse's revealing book, the personalities, issues, and events in this first round of talks - which for many analysts are as far-reaching as the Congress of Vienna - lucidly and dramatically unfold. Writing with an insider's special knowledge, Mr. Newhouse traces the little-known background that led to the talk, unravels the mysteries of the weaponry at issue, clarifies the complexities of the diplomatic bargaining, and offers fascinating portraits of the key players on both sides.

Cold Dawn: The Story of Salt

History

Military

Brassey's, Inc

Russell Mead, New York Times Book Review) comes a timely and important account of the Bush administration’s squandered foreign-policy opportunities–what it did and did not do during the run-up to the war in Iraq. John Newhouse describes the ways in which America’s relationship with much of the world went wrong after the events of September 11, 2001, the moment when most nations were ready to accept U.S. leadership in a war against terrorism. Newhouse poses important questions: Why didn’t the Bush administration exploit this rare opportunity to stabilize the Middle East, and Southwest and Northeast Asia? How have the administration’s truculent behavior, misguided actions, and inaction at critical moments undermined efforts to curb the production of weapons of mass destruction? Why have Bush and his cabinet laid down edicts that have served chiefly to upset and sharpen the insecurities of other nations, including some of our allies? Newhouse discusses the reasons why Pakistan is probably the most dangerous country in the world. He devotes attention to the threats posed by Iran and North Korea, and the administration’s bungled, dangerously inept attention to them. Woven through with illuminating anecdotes and vivid portraits of the players–Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell, Blair, Chirac, Putin, and others–Imperial America is a brilliantly clear, timely, and powerfully thought-provoking exposé of recent American foreign policy: how it has been made and perilously mishandled.

Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order

Americas

KNOPF

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, most of the world was ready to accept American leadership in a war against terrorism. Yet within a year the United States was estranged from its allies and enmeshed in a costly and increasingly deadly occupation of Iraq, while virtually ignoring potentially great threats from other parts of the world. In this measured but forcefully argued book, the distinguished foreign correspondent John Newhouse shows what went wrong. Timely, knowledgeable, and filled with vivid portraits of such figures as George W. Bush Tony Blair, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney, Imperial America is an indispensable book.

Imperial America: The Bush Assault on World Order

Vintage

An examination of the current state of the airline construction industry focuses on the dramatic, highly competitive, high-stakes competition between Boeing, Lockheed, McDonnell-Douglas, and Europe's Airbus Industrie

The Sporty Game: The High-Risk Competitive Business of Making and Selling Commercial Airliners

Business & Money

Economics

Alfred.A. Knopf

An overview of the nuclear era examines the confrontations, key decisions, and personalities involved with nuclear policy from the Roosevelt administration to Reagan's presidential terms

War And Peace In The Nuclear Age

De Gaulle and the Anglo-Saxons

VIKING

With authority and clarity, Europe Adrift gives a keen and astute analysis of the struggle of the European nations to reorder their priorities in the post-Cold War era. John Newhouse--a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a consultant to the State Department--is perfectly placed to examine the deep and continuing divisions in a unified Germany, France's reluctance to accept Germany's ascendancy in European affairs, the self-marginalization of Britain, the lapses of the European Union, and the complex politics of NATO enlargement. We are able to comprehend as never before Europe's inability to deal with the tragic events in the former Yugoslavia, the likelihood that a single European currency will be politically divisive and even damaging to the economies it is meant to help, and the dangers of a breakdown of Russia's armed forces, including the system that controls the country's nuclear weapons. Newhouse cogently argues that the weakness of European governments and political parties, along with the absence of an organizing principle--such as real threat from a superpower--will discourage progress toward a broad and stable European order. As the leaders of the European Union engage in a headlong scramble to ensure that economic and monetary union begins as planned on January 1, 1999, Europe Adrift will prove to be one of the most important and widely discussed books of recent times.

Europe Adrift: The conflicting demands of unity, nationalism, economic security, political stab ility, and military readiness now facing a

Europe

Pantheon

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

This is a history of the nuclear age which dawned on August 6th 1945. It aims to portray the major events, personalities and issues of the post-war world and to explore the background to the nuclear deabate, from Hiroshima to Star Wars and the halting steps towards agreements with the USSR. Combining historical research with documentation and interviews with many of those involved at all levels, the story is unfolded - the origin of nuclear weapons, the people who have helped shape the course of history, the ideas and issues that politicians, scientists and the public must confront, and the outlook for the future. This is a companion to a 13-part television series to be screened in 1989.

The nuclear age: From Hiroshima to Star Wars

M.Joseph

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