DEADLY GAMBITS

by Talbott, Strobe

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NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Binding and contents are almost like new. 3 small dungs in DJ's back panel, at spine, 1" tear in front flap's top edge, else minor wear on the clean, complete DJ.. VG + / G+ . c. 1984. Second Printing. Hardcover. Index. Black cloth spine w/metallic gray spine lettering. Fore edge untrimmed . HISTORY. The Reagan Administration and the stalemate in nuclear arms control. A revelatory inside account of the personality clashes and power struggles. With an abundance of intimate detail, Talbott takes us behind the scenes in the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the conference chambers in Geneva. We enter National Security Council meetings to see President Reagan, with small grasp of the issues, trying to find some middle ground between his Secretary of State and his combative Secrety of Defense. Along the way we gain a rare understanding of arms control itself - the arcana of throw-weight, de-MIRVing, and dead zones, of double build-down and off-setting asymmetries, of the iron realities that lie behind the abstract doctrines. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 380 pages .