Private Testimony and Public Policy

Even Dante, who described hell so vividly, would have to tax his imagination to envisage the descent and degradation courted by governments who rely on the balance of terror to prevent war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The competing images of world order advanced by these gargantuan powers, inextricably interwoven with their rational assessment of national interests, may cause a world inferno. To those sophisticated in the game of power politics, even to the public at larg...