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Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban (Paperback, New ed)
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Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban (Paperback, New ed)
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"This is one of the most important books to come from a university
press within the last year ...Seaberg, Nobel Prize laureate, was
chairman of the old Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) when the treaty
was negotiated. With a decent time interval now past, he has opened
the detailed diary he kept during his AEC tenure. Together with
auxiliary materials, including interviews with other participants,
he has now written an incisive account of events leading up to the
treaty and of the negotiations and their successful conclusion."
(Christian Science Monitor). "Drawn from [Seaberg's] personal
journal, this book focuses on Kennedy's quest for a comprehensive
test ban and on why, 'despite some near misses, this glittering
prize, which carried with it the opportunity to arrest the
viciously spiralling arms race, eluded our grasp.' More than a
memoir, the book draws upon documents and observations of other key
participants ...It also provides insights into Kennedy and his
Administration as well as giving us the substance of the nuclear
test ban debate. Mr. Seaberg is refreshingly fair in his assessment
of the merits and failures of the limited treaty that Kennedy
achieved." (New York Times). "A detailed and absorbing history of
what seems, in retrospect, the innocent and halcyon days of nuclear
arms control. Seaberg rightly lays claim to having been an
'insider' in the test ban negotiations, and his first-person
account benefits from close friendship with other Kennedy
insiders...As might be expected, the book is most interesting for
the light it throws upon the thoughts and actions of Kennedy; a
surprise is its insight, reflected through the eyes of Kennedy and
Harriman, into the personality of Khrushchev...Implicit in
Seaborg's portrait of Khrushchev is a view which perhaps had some
currency in the Kennedy administration but more recently seems to
have fallen out of vogue--that it is possible to deal with the
Russians." (Washington Post).
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