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From Hiroshima To Glasnost: A Memoir Of Five Perilous Decades

Paul H. Nitze
Reviewed by Gregory F. Treverton
Winter 1989/90
From Hiroshima To Glasnost: A Memoir Of Five Perilous Decades
Paul H. Nitze
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1989
476 pp.
$25.00
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An important contribution to postwar history, by one of the major figures in American foreign policy. His account of the famous "walk in the woods" clears up some of the mystery surrounding this episode.

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