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This unique analysis of Soviet and Russian defense affairs provides an authoritative and thoroughly documented assessment from a former Soviet foreign policy insider. As an active and informed participant, Sokov's discussion of the evolution of the Soviet and Russian strategic posture offers fascinating and illuminating firsthand insights into Soviet weapons systems, elite decisionmaking, and bureaucratic politics during both the Soviet and Russian periods. The book thus casts light not merely on the development of the Soviet ICBM and SLBM programs, but on a much broader spectrum of issues linked to Soviet and Russian security policy formulation. With its combination of informed analysis and use of new documentation, this work will be invaluable for all concerned with U.S.-Russian strategic relations.

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Sokov provides an invaluable background to current nuclear arms control questions. The book is a useful addition to the literature. International Affairs, Oct.2000 This compact and concisely written study deserves attention not only from the shrinking tribe of nuclear experts but from all those interested in strategic decisionmaking in Moscow. Journal Of Peace Research A well documented treatise which helps the reader to understand the dynamics of Soviet defence planning during the Cold War era. International Review of Administrative Science An informed and documented treatise on a crucial area of Cold-War inquiry by a bona fide former Soviet security professional. As such, it provides a revelation for those in the West who long struggled to understand the dynamics of Soviet defense planning, but had little clue, beyond vague generalities, about what went on inside the black box of Soviet decision-making. -- Benjamin S. Lambeth, from the foreword

An informed and documented treatise on a crucial area of Cold-War inquiry by a bona fide former Soviet security professional. As such, it provides a revelation for those in the West who long struggled to understand the dynamics of Soviet defense planning, but had little clue, beyond vague generalities, about what went on inside the black box of Soviet decision-making.--Benjamin S. Lambeth

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Nikolai Sokov is senior research associate, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. From 1987 to 1992, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and before that of the USSR. During the same period, he was an expert of the Soviet delegation to the START talks.

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