Implications of the Reykjavik summit on its twentieth anniversary conference report /
| Other Authors / Creators: | Drell, Sidney D. 1926-2016. Shultz, George P., 1920-2021. |
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, c2007. |
| Series: | Hoover Institution Press publication ;
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
| Summary: | Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts. |
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| Item Description: | "Conference held October 11-12, 2006 at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University." |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and ind'ex. |
| ISBN: | 9780817948436 (online) 9780817948481 (online) |
| Author Notes: | He was one of the top advisers to the United States government on military technology and arms control. He received the Enrico Fermi Award for his life's work in 2000 and the National Medal of Science for his contributions to physics and his service to the government in 2013. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Electromagnetic Structure of Nucleons, Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons, The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical, Political and Arms Control Assessment, In the Shadow of the Bomb: Physics and Arms Control, and The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons. He co-wrote several textbooks with the theoretical physicist James D. Bjorken including Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Quantum Fields. He died on December 21, 2016 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) |