Dangerous Capabilities: Paul Nitze and the Cold War

NY: Harpercollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hard Cover In his complementary roles as Cold War crusader and opponent of nuclear arms reductions, Paul Nitze called for a heavily armed postwar U. S. To counteract a purported Soviet drive for global domination. Callahan, managing editor of American Prospect , portrays this adviser to six presidents from FDR to Reagan as a technocrat fixated on the use of military force, a man whose moral righteousness blinded him to the contradictions of U. S. Foreign policy. He faults the die-hard anticommunist for using Reagan's high-tech fantasy of a "Star Wars" defensive shield in space as a bargaining chip. Interweaving engrossing biography with a behind-the-scenes history of the Cold War, Callahan illuminates how massive military spending has helped reduce the U. S. To the world's largest debtor nation. - Publisher's Weekly. The jacket is protected by an adjustable mylar cover. 9 1/2 by 6 1/2 Inches. Hard Cover. .bx 34