TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry,William James
TI  - My journey at the nuclear brink /William J. Perry
SN  - 9780804797146
AV  - UA23 .M956 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Perry, William James,
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Government policy
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Nuclear arms control
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The Cuban Missile Crisis : a nuclear nightmare --; A fire in the sky --; The rise of the Soviet missile threat and the race for data to understand it --; An original Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the advance of spy technology --; A call to serve --; Implementing the offset strategy and the emergence of stealth technology --; Buildup of the US nuclear force --; Nuclear alerts, arms control, and missed opportunities in nonproliferation --; The under secretary as diplomat --; Back in civilian life : the Cold War ends, but the nuclear journey continues --; A return to Washington : the new challenge of "loose nukes" and the lurching reform of defense acquisition --; I become secretary of defense --; Dismantling nuclear weapons and the legacy of Nunn-Lugar --; The crisis with North Korea : containing an emerging nuclear state --; Ratifying Start II and battling over the Test Ban Treaty --; NATO, peacekeeping in Bosnia, and the rise of security ties with Russia --; The "immaculate invasion" of Haiti and forging ties for western hemispheric security --; The "iron logic" between military capability and quality of life --; A farewell to arms --; The fall of security ties with Russia --; Seeking common ground with China, India, Pakistan, and Iran --; The North Korean policy review : triumph and tragedy --; Fiasco in Iraq : then and now --; Former "cold warriors" offer a new vision --; A way forward : hope for a world without nuclear weapons; 2; b
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