Publisher's Synopsis
Robert McNamara draws on his experience working for the government during the Cuban missile crisis and the Vietnam war, to trace US-Soviet relations in the last three decades, and opens the debate on America's post-Cold War future.;Since World War II the United States and the Soviet Union have been engulfed in mutual suspicion and hostility. Gorbachev's reforms and a shifting world economic picture are initiating changes in America's relations with other countries as well as within its own borders. Robert McNamara lays the groundwork in this study for a new era of post-Cold War relations.
