We All Lost the Cold War

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Sovietand American policymakers among them several important figures speaking forpublic... » 

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Sovietand American policymakers among them several important figures speaking forpublic record for the first time Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light onthe effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold Warthe Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of theArabIsraeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrenceprolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers. «