Doppelter Boden: Die SALT-Verhandlungen 1963–1979

This is the most comprehensive story of the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) talks published to date. Arvid Schors, a young historian at the University of Freiburg, has used all available evidence: documents from U.S. and other Western archives, volumes with both U.S. and Soviet documents, information in academic works by other authors, and memoirs by participants in the SALT process. The fact that he gains his insights mostly from U.S. sources inevitably results in asymmetries of content. The largely divergent approaches of politicians, diplomats, and scholars in the United States and their disagreements on aims and methods are discussed in great detail, in contrast to similar information on decision-making in Moscow, which is much sparser. In addition, the detailed insight on the negotiating processes is based largely on U.S. sources. Until August 2015, when vast quantities of important documents were made available at the Russian State Archive of...