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Return to Armageddon covers the extraordinary years spanning the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, a period when the United States, through its victory in the Cold War, led the world away from the brink of nuclear annihilation, and then slowly became aware of the increased threat of nuclear confrontation in a world more splintered than ever before and more at the mercy of fanatics and zealots.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The United States and Czarist Russia -- 1 The United States and the Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1933 -- 2 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Grand Alliance, 1933-1945 -- 3 Truman and Containment, 1945-1953 -- 4 Eisenhower and the Globalization of the Cold War, 1953-1961 -- 5 Kennedy and Johnson: Confrontation and Cooperation, 1961-1969 -- 6 Nixon, Ford, and Détente, 1969-1977 -- 7 Carter and the Decline of Détente, 1977-1981 -- 8 The Reagan Cold War, 1981-1989 -- 9 George Bush and the End of the Cold War, 1989-1991 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Index.