The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace by Strobe TalbottReview by: Gregory F. TrevertonForeign Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Spring, 1989), p. 185Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043917 .

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WAR AND PEACE IN THE NUCLEAR AGE. By John Newhouse. New York: Knopf, 1989, 486 pp. $22.95.

Written as a companion to the PBS television series, this book ranges from atomic physics in the 1930s to the end of the Reagan Administration. It is enriched by Newhouse's interviews for The New Yorker and his own

past as a government insider, and it has the benefit of McGeorge Bundy's recent volume. Its fast cuts give it the flavor of a documentary film, but it is an important story told by a gifted writer.

THE MASTER OF THE GAME: PAUL NITZE AND THE NUCLEAR PEACE. By Strobe Talbott. New York: Knopf, 1988, 416 pp. $19.95.

If Nitze, at the center of American defense policy for half a century, is the master of the game, Talbott is the master of what he calls the "second draft of history." In this instance the game was tedious for all its high politics: for three long years, beginning when he was 78 years old, Nitze drafted and redrafted, named and renamed, argued and reargued schemes to persuade Reagan to have his cake and eat it too by reaching a modest

compromise over SDI that would have made possible a major strategic arms reduction with Moscow.

NEXT MOVES: AN ARMS CONTROL AGENDA FOR THE 1990s. By Edward L. Warner III and David A. Ochmanek. New York: Council on

Foreign Relations, 1989, 163 pp. $10.95 (paper). Based on a Council study group, this volume is a nice combination: terse

and readable for those with a general interest plus plenty of detail and numbers for specialists. It sets the negotiations in their political context and

suggests sensible ways forward. The new administration could have nothing better as background.

NATO'S CONVENTIONAL DEFENSES. By Stephen J. Flanagan. Cam

bridge: Ballinger, 1988, 172 pp. $34.95 (paper, $14.95). An International Institute for Strategic Studies Book.

As conventional arms control in Europe comes onto the agenda, so too will the debate about how much defense NATO needs move from the

specialists to the politicians. This book is a thoughtful primer to that debate.

Flanagan's careful analysis leaves him?and the reader?appropriately skeptical of panaceas for the problems in technology, doctrine, weapons or

arms control.

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