... economic difficulties in later years. Brezhnev presided over a major buildup in Soviet nuclear and conventional weapons. A secret “missile civil war” among Soviet weapons designers set the stage for a massive missile buildup that put the USSR ahead of the United States in some categories of weapons...

... The Vladivostok summit convened in 1974 established limits on US and Soviet strategic forces but could not be turned into a treaty because of political maneuvering in Washington and a US mistake over how to count Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM). The chapter describes negotiations leading...

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... at the last minute when Gorbachev demanded strict limits on SDI. Drawing from official records of both sides, the author reveals how the abortive Reykjavik deal included elimination of nuclear bombers, where the US had a substantial advantage, and not just ballistic missiles, as US officials said at the time...

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