Every Man Should Try: Adventures of a Public Interest Activist

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction: the Meaning of This Memoir xi
• Part I - Successful Odyssey with the Anti-Ballistic Missile 1
• Chapter I - First Thoughts on Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems 3
• Chapter 2 - Harvard Becomes a Base for an Anti-Abm Campaign 13
• Chapter 3 - Return to Mathematics, to Moscow, and to Washington 19
• Part II - Life in Washington: Unpredictable in Every Way 33
• Chapter 4 - Life with the Foreign Policy Establishment 35
• Chapter 5 - Stopping an Illegal Cia Mail-Opening Campaign 44
• Chapter 6 - R&d Gap Report Stimulates Both Investigation and Smear 53
• Chapter 7 - An Arrow Aimed at Kissinger Hits the Watergate Bull's-Eye 59
• Chapter 8 - Jump-Starting Fas 65
• Chapter 9 - My Collaboration with Colby 81
• Part III - Creating Barriers to the Use of Nuclear Weapons 89
• Chapter 10 - The No-One-Decision-Maker Approach to No First Use of Nuclear Weapons 91

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction: the Meaning of This Memoir xi
• Part I - Successful Odyssey with the Anti-Ballistic Missile 1
• Chapter I - First Thoughts on Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems 3
• Chapter 2 - Harvard Becomes a Base for an Anti-Abm Campaign 13
• Chapter 3 - Return to Mathematics, to Moscow, and to Washington 19
• Part II - Life in Washington: Unpredictable in Every Way 33
• Chapter 4 - Life with the Foreign Policy Establishment 35
• Chapter 5 - Stopping an Illegal Cia Mail-Opening Campaign 44
• Chapter 6 - R&d Gap Report Stimulates Both Investigation and Smear 53
• Chapter 7 - An Arrow Aimed at Kissinger Hits the Watergate Bull's-Eye 59
• Chapter 8 - Jump-Starting Fas 65
• Chapter 9 - My Collaboration with Colby 81
• Part III - Creating Barriers to the Use of Nuclear Weapons 89
• Chapter 10 - The No-One-Decision-Maker Approach to No First Use of Nuclear Weapons 91
• Part IV - Improving Relations with Superpowers 117
• Chapter 12 - Catalyzing Exchanges with an I11 Premier Zhou Enlai 119
• Chapter 13 - Congressional Travel to the Ussr: Cold-War Antidote 130
• Part V Human Rights and the Defense of Sakharov: 1973-1987 143
• Chapter 14 - 1973-1979: Defending Sakharov Through Nas and Moscow 145
• Chapter - 1980-1982: Defense of Sakharov Via Dobrynin and the Media 163
• Chapter 16 - 1983-1987: Would Moscow Give Sakharov to Kennedy? 171
• Part VI - Earthquakes, Freedom of the Press, and Astrology 189
• Chapter 18 - Trying to Protect Freedom of the Press from the H-Bomb 199
• Chapter 19 - Onfronting Reagan on Astrology Eight Years Too Early 206
• Part VII Two Successes in the Salt and Start Disarmament Talks 211
• Chapter 20 - Should Salt II Be Ratified, and What Form Should Salt III Take? 213
• Chapter 21 - Start Talks: the Sakharov Finesse, Stone Variety 227
• Part VIII - Strengthening Defenses Against Proliferation, Crime, and Terrorism 239
• Chapter 22 - Forging a Cia-Kgb Connection While Working for Neither 241
• Part IX - Undermining Extreme Maoist Insurrections in the Third World 255
• Chapter 23 - Preventing Overt U.S. Involvement in a Second Indochinese War 257
• Chapter 24 - Cambodia: a Failed Attempt to End the War 268
• Chapter 25 - Hosting Prime Minister Hun Sen in Washington 277
• Chapter 26 - The Arrest of Guzman of Peru's Sendero Luminoso 292
• Part X - New Concepts for the Peaceful Resolution of Two Territorial Disputes 303
• Chapter 27 - Yugoslavia: the Renting of Kosovo 305
• Chapter 28 - A New Method for Reunifying China 315
• Chapter 29 - Unfinished Business: Atomic Espionage in World War II 324
• Part XI - Conclusion 343
• Chapter 30 - Making a Difference in the Face of Temporal Inertia 345
• Afterword: - New Initiatives at Press Time 365
• Notes 369
• Index 417