Great universal embrace: arms summitry-a skeptic's account

In The Great Universal Embrace, Kenneth L. Adelman-President Reagan's colorful arms advisor-delivers an outspoken book on why arms talks don't reduce arms and an insider's view of how foreign and defense policies were made and misunderstood during the Reagan era.
Adelman's wit and easy way with words make this enormously important topic understandable and compelling. And, for once, the message is one of hope, since Adelman tells us why the world will, despite arms control, have fewer nuclear weapons and greater safety in the coming years.
Adelman, "one of the most brilliant foreign policy minds around," in the words of The Wall Street Journal, draws on his nearly five years as United States Arms Control Director and two years as Deputy United States Representative to the United Nations (as Jeane Kirkpatrick's number two) to take us behind the closed doors of superpower politics. Dispensing with boring rhetoric, public relations double-talk, and mind-boggling numbers and acronyms, Adelman allows us to join the Reagan team as they take on Mikhail Gorbachev and the Russians at summit tables from Geneva to Reykjavik to Washington.
Illustrating his ideas with points from actual negotiations between the superpowers, Adelman speaks frankly about arms talks and why they almost never deliver anything substantive, despite what politicians say as they smile for the cameras. Yet he explains how and why we are moving toward a safer future.