Double Game: The Demise of America's First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation (UK)

by James Cameron

How did the United States move from a position of nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1960s to one of nuclear parity under the doctrine of mutual assured destruction in 1972? Drawing on declassified records of conversations three presidents had with their most trusted advisors, James Cameron offers an original answer to this question. John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon struggled to reconcile their personal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190459921
• ISBN13: 9780190459925
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"