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Governments in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in particular could face a pacifist backlash if they blocked a Soviet-American agreement to get rid of shorter-range missiles. At present the Soviets have about 130 shorter-range weapons -- some 50 in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, the rest in the western U.S.S.R. The U.S. has none at all; it controls the warheads for 72 shorter- range Pershing 1As in West Germany, but these are nonetheless considered German missiles, not subject to a U.S.-Soviet agreement. Thus if Gorbachev's latest proposal is rejected, the numbers of U.S. and Soviet shorter-range...
Tensions escalate. The military goes on alert. A Soviet-American showdown seems probable. When a nuclear attack upon the U.S. is considered imminent, authority to use nuclear weapons is automatically "predelegated" to various military commanders. For a nation that mistakenly assumes only the President's finger is ever on the button, this little-known fact will come as a disconcerting discovery. In his first novel, State Scarlet (Putnam; $18.95), David Aaron, a top staffer at the National Security Council during the Carter Administration, uses fiction to show how the nation's command, control and communications system, known...
...ANYONE WHO follows the news, Reagan and Gorbachev is of little use. At best, the book is a clear distillation of recent events in Soviet-American relations. At worst, it is a supermarket paperback masquerading as thoughtful analysis. Either way, the authors' "insights" would rarely startle a freshman Gov Jock...
...some cases, Talbott and co-author Michael Mandelbaum's superficiality is reflected in a startling failure to substantiate even their simplest statements. The authors hardly support the easy conclusion that the Soviet-American rapprochement in the '70s failed because each nation sought unilateral advantages over the other...
...final chapter. The best hope for improvement in Soviet-American relations, the authors write, lies in a reaffirmation of the SALT agreements limiting offensive and defensive weapons systems. But the U.S.'s relationship with the Soviet Union will never be friendly so long as the men in the Kremlin define security in terms of domestic and international coercion. Genuinely cordial Soviet-American relations rest on the unlikely assumption that Mikhail Gorbachev wants to liberalize the Eastern bloc and the even more remote possibility that the General Secretary can liberalize the Eastern bloc...