A valuable collection of public documents (unfortunately discontinued in 1985) is
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Documents on Disarmament, 1981-1985
( 1982-1986). Another important collection of documents is Christopher Simpson,
ed., National Security Directives of the Reagan and Bush Administrations: The Declassi-
fied History of U.S. Political and Military Policy, 1981-1991 ( 1995).

Among the more important memoirs of the Reagan years are Ronald W. Reagan,
An American Life ( 1990); Alexander M. Haig Jr., Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign
Policy ( 1984); George Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State
( 1990); Robert McFarlane, Special Trust ( 1994); Caspar Weinberger, Fighting for Peace
( 1990); and Martin Anderson, Revolution ( 1988).

Among the best secondary sources dealing with Reagan's military policies is
Daniel Wirls, Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era ( 1992).

For the Strategic Defense Initiative, see Donald R. Baucom, The Origins of SDI,
1944-1983 ( 1992); Kerry L. Hunter, The Reign of Fantasy: The Political Roots of Reagan's
Star Wars Policy ( 1997); Sanford Lakoff and Herbert F. York, A Shield in Space? Tech-
nology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative ( 1989); Rebecca Bjork, The Strategic
Defense Initiative: Symbolic Containment of the Nuclear Threat ( 1992).

For Reagan's efforts to revise the ABM Treaty, see Raymond L. Garthoff, Policy
versus the Law: The Reinterpretation of the ABM Treaty ( 1987); Matthew Bunn, Founda-
tion for the Future: The ABM Treaty and National Security ( 1990). For a related topic, see
Allan Girrier and Catherine Girrier, American Policy and Alleged Soviet Treaty Viola-
tions ( 1987).

Among the best secondary accounts dealing with nuclear arms control during the
Reagan years are Keith L. Shimko, Images and Arms Control: Perceptions of the Soviet
Union in the Reagan Administration ( 1991); Michael Mandelbaum and Strobe Talbott,
Reagan and Gorbachev ( 1987); Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Adminis-tration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control

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