Every Club in the Bag
R.W. Johnson: Whitehall and Moscow, 8 August 2002
The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 234 pp., £16.99, March 2002,0 7139 9626 9 Show More
by Peter Hennessy.
Allen Lane, 234 pp., £16.99, March 2002,
Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World
by Percy Cradock.
Murray, 351 pp., £25, March 2002,0 7195 6048 9 Show More
by Percy Cradock.
Murray, 351 pp., £25, March 2002,
“... have nuclear capability made the situation even trickier. Astonishingly, Cradock believes that Kennedy’s frantic pursuit of a nuclear test-ban treaty in 1960 was ‘cover for a proposal to Khrushchev that the US and Soviet Union should act together to coerce Mao to abandon his [nuclear] plans. In practical terms this would probably have meant a joint ... ”