The Big Five: Arms Control Decision Making in the Soviet Union

Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgments The Historical Background The Politburo Commission for the Negotiations The Big Five and the Small Five The SALT-II Talks: The Decision-Making Mechanism in Action Euromissiles and the Principle of Equal Security The START Negotiations and the Final Period of Superpower Confrontation The Return to the Negotiations: The Prelude to Perestroyka The Krasnoyarsk Affair Perestroyka and the Further Refinement of the Decision-Making Mechanism Medium-Range Nuclear Weapons Negotiations: Was the Zero Option Really So Bad? The START Treaty: Who Made Concessions to Whom? The Difficult Path to the START Treaty Defense and Space Issues: A Field for Future Negotiations The Big Five: From Its Birth to Its Death Reflections Index