Conventional Arms Control and East-West Security by Robert D. Blackwill; F. StephenLarrabeeReview by: Gregory F. TrevertonForeign Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 5 (Winter, 1989), p. 208Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20044215 .

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208 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

magnify in force and compress in time imperatives that were present in the

pre-nuclear era; even then the pursuit of unlimited victory was unrealistic. The superpowers seem to have understood the implications of the revolu tion better in their actions, especially during crises, than in their declared

policies. Jervis takes us through those implications in prose so lucid we feel we have known them all along.

CONVENTIONAL ARMS CONTROL AND EAST-WEST SECURITY. Edited by Robert D. Blackwill and F. Stephen Larrabee. Durham (NC): Duke University Press, 1989, 491 pp. $67.50 (paper, $19.95). A Research Volume from the Institute for East-West Security Studies.

This big, important book is a genuine East-West joint venture with its clutch of authors including two who subsequently joined President Bush's

National Security Council staff and four who came to form part of the Soviet arms control negotiating teams. The book concentrates on military aspects of arms control, ranging from doctrine to verification, but it sets them in their broader context: conventional arms control cannot be

separated from nuclear issues. More important, its ultimate subject is

intensely political, nothing less than the future of the two Germanies and the shape of Europe.

FROM HIROSHIMA TO GLASNOST: A MEMOIR OF FIVE PERIL OUS DECADES. By Paul H. Nitze. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,

1989, 476 pp. $25.00. 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.

William G. Hyland

THE GREAT UNIVERSAL EMBRACE: ARMS SUMMITRY?A SKEP TIC'S ACCOUNT. By Kenneth L. Adelman. New York: Simon and

Schuster, 1989, 366 pp. $19.95. Adelman's prose is caustic, and his subject is something of a moving

target. The book is strongest as an account of President Reagan's summits

by one who was sufficiently "inside" to feel part of the team but "outside" and honest enough to register surprise at: some of the proceedings. His theme?that arms control seldom reduces arms?should come as no

surprise to any earthling. His argument for strategic defense is passionate but terse and disconnected from the rest of the book; by the same token, his

advocacy of tacit or nonnegotiated restraints is as apt a reminder of a good old idea as it was when Adelman made it some years ago in Foreign Affairs.

NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS: THE MAJOR DEBATES ON STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND ARMS CONTROL. Edited by Lynn Eden and Steven E. Miller. Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press, 1989, 338 pp. $49.95 (paper, $19.95). DEFENDING DETERRENCE: MANAGING THE ABM TREATY RE GIME INTO THE 21st CENTURY. Edited by Antonia Handler Chayes and Paul Doty. Washington: Pergamon-Brassey's, 1989, 286 pp. $32.00.

These two Cambridge-based books both show Paul Doty's fine sensibil

ity. Eden and Miller seek to explicate the underlying issues in the nuclear

debate, complete with a model on a computer disk; the effort comes

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