TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newhouse,John
TI  - War and peace in the nuclear age / 
SN  - 9780394562179
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 
N1  - The rivals
Falls the shadow
The end of illusion
The enigmatic presidency
Mad momentum
Black Saturday
On the cusp
The back channel
The right resurgent
The real world
The inconstant presidency
The abolitionist
Opportunity lost

N2  - "This book covers a lot of ground -- from the stirrings of the 'new physics' early in the century to events of June 1988, notably the last meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and Mr. Gorbachev's special conference of the Soviet Communist party some days later. In between came crises, confrontations, negotiations and even a few arguments, I have tried to relate much of that and to describe the historic effect of nuclear weapons on relations between adversaries, as well as the singular effects of these weapons on relations between allies
ER  -