Strategy Behind Arms-Reduction Pacts

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In explaining Ronald Reagan's moves toward nuclear-arms- reduction pacts with the Soviet Union, James Mann writes, "Increasingly, Reagan rebelled against the forces and ideas that had made the Cold War seem endless and intractable."

He says this of the period 1986-88. In fact, that rebellion was a hallmark of the entire Reagan presidency. The author has missed the fact that this was the final phase of a determined and well- developed strategy.

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Strategy Behind Arms-Reduction Pacts

Mr. Mann was for years a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. The author of two other books, he is author-in- residence at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In the introduction to "The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan"...

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