We all lost the Cold War | |
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Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policymakers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the several confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. In sharp contrast to the conventional wisdom, they conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers. In the case of Cuba, deterrence was a principal cause of the crisis; eleven years later, it provided the umbrella under which both the United States and the Soviet Union pursued unilateral advantage, undermining the fragile foundations of their recent detente. |
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Statement of Responsibility | |
Author(s) | Richard Ned Lebow - Personal Name Janice Gross Stein - Personal Name |
Edition | |
Call Number | [POL-SSS-68] |
Subject(s) | Cold War United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publishing Year | 1994 |
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