Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente

An in-depth study of the secret communications that led to unprecedented thaw between Cold War superpowers-"quite gripping [and] wonderfully revealing" (Jeremi Suri, author of Liberty's Surest Guardian).

The détente between the United States and the Soviet Union was among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin became the most importan...