Russian Nuclear Shield from Stalin to Yeltsin

JENNIFER MATHERS is Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Massive Retaliation and Soviet Ballistic Missile Defence, 1953-7 We Can Hit a Fly in Outer Space, 1957-62 From Cuba to Détente, 1962-68 Missile Defence and Arms Control Diplomacy, 1968-72 Missile Defence and the Decline of Détente, 1972-9 The Second Cold War and the Threat of SDI, 1980-5 New Political Thinking and Ballistic Missile Defence, 1985-91 Missile Defence and Yeltsin's Russia The Kremlin's Missile Defence Policy during the Cold War and Beyond Bibliography Index