“Dr Kintner’s superb academic and diplomatic credentials have been brought to bear on the complex and uncertain subject of arms control with first-rate results. This volume, with contributions from a host of scholars and practitioners of the negotiating art, is replete with insight and wisdom. While it is unlikely that all the judgments of the various contributors will be shared by all readers, it is must reading as the pace of arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union accelerates.”–Lawrence S. Eagleburger

With Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm, Soviet strategy is to press an instensive and continuous campaign about the need for U.S.-Soviet arms control agreements. This volume addresses a dilemma for the American people: Is the Soviet Union’s program for peace in reality a form of war?

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
William R. Kintner

I. The Issue of Moral Equivalence Between the Superpowers
1. Introduction to Moral Equivalence
William R. Kintner
2. The Record of the United States and the Soviet Union in Post-World War II International Politics
Constantine C. Menges
3. The Issue of Moral Equivalence
Jerry F. Hough
4. Neutralism and World Order
David Gress

II. The Unique Role of Arms Control Negotiations in the Struggle Over Peace
5. Introduction to the Arms Control Dilemma
William R. Kintner
6. Gorbachev’s Proposal for a Nonnuclear World by the Year 2000: Vision, Ploy, or What?
James E. Dougherty
7. The Death of Arms Control: Soviet SALT Breakout
David S. Sullivan
8. The Necessity for Strategic Defenses
Richard B. Foster
9. Goal Driven Priorities for Strategic Defense
Sherman Frankel
10. Space, Security, and Peace in the 21st Century
Robert C. Richardson III

III. East-West Vulnerabilities and Strengths
11. Introduction to the East-West Struggle
William R. Kintner
12. Coping With Detente
Vladimir Bukovsky
13. U.S. Vulnerability to Soviet Political Warfare
Max Singer
14. Proxies and Peace
Paul Seabury
15. Coping with the Soviet Peace War
Richard E. Bissell
16. Some Elements of an American Strategy
W. Scott Thompson
17. How We Can Blitz the Kremlin Wall
Eugene H. Methvin

Appendix
The Struggle for Peace
Malcolm Toon
The Soviet Challenge
John Tower
Index

WILLIAM R. KINTNER is Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been the director and president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand from 1973-75. Among his numerous books are: The Front Is Everywhere (1950), Protracted Conflict (1959), Building the Atlantic World (1963) and Soviet Global Strategy (1987).