From Hiroshima to Glasnost

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From Hiroshima to Glasnost offers Ambassador Paul H. Nitze's reflections on the issues he has faced, tlie decisions he has made, the people he has known, and the presidents he has served in his almost fifty years inside the top echelons of Washington policy circles.
In the detailed and forthright manner for which he is famed, Ambassador Nitze discusses the major events of his illustrious career: the formation ofthe Marshall Plan, the Korean War, the Berlin Wall crisis, NATO, Vietnam, the Committee on the Present Danger, the SALT treaties, and the ongoing weapons negotiations. Throughout his long career, Nitze has been at the center of American policy making, serving as a member of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey directly after World War II; acting as adviser to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis; and engaging in the famous "walk in the woods" with Soviet negotiator Yuli Kvitsinskiy during the U.S.-USSR Interme-diate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks.... Tovább

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From Hiroshima to Glasnost offers Ambassador Paul H. Nitze's reflections on the issues he has faced, tlie decisions he has made, the people he has known, and the presidents he has served in his almost fifty years inside the top echelons of Washington policy circles.
In the detailed and forthright manner for which he is famed, Ambassador Nitze discusses the major events of his illustrious career: the formation ofthe Marshall Plan, the Korean War, the Berlin Wall crisis, NATO, Vietnam, the Committee on the Present Danger, the SALT treaties, and the ongoing weapons negotiations. Throughout his long career, Nitze has been at the center of American policy making, serving as a member of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey directly after World War II; acting as adviser to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis; and engaging in the famous "walk in the woods" with Soviet negotiator Yuli Kvitsinskiy during the U.S.-USSR Interme-diate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks. Here, too, are incisive portraits of many ofthe people Nitze has known: presidents from Roosevelt to Reagan; secretaries of state, including General George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, and George Shultz; statesmen and policymakers such as James Forrestal, Will Clayton, Charles "Chip" Boh-len, George F. Kennan, and Robert McNa-mara; and foreign leaders, East and West alike, including a candid look at the current Soviet head of state, Mikhail Gorbachev. Centering on his own fields of expertise—economics, nuclear matters, and negotiations-Ambassador Nitze provides an overview of the challenges he has faced and the reasons informing the decisions he has made over the past five decades in the developing and ever-changing relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Like the memoirs of Dean Acheson and Henry Kissinger, From Hiroshima to Glasnost is a record-settling account of major events in world history by one of the most influential and respected policymakers of our time.
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