... ceremony. It discusses KGB chief Andropov’s Operation RYAN, seeking evidence of a supposedly impending US nuclear strike. It concludes with NATO’s Able Archer exercise in 1983, which showed anxiety in Moscow but did not, as some have charged, amount to a “war scare.” Ronald Reagan George Shultz...

... The chapter opens with the diplomacy leading to 1990 German unification, largely on Western terms. It shows that unification arrangements contained no provisions blocking NATO’s subsequent eastward expansion. It covers Boris Yeltsin’s march to political power in Russia and the conflict between...