A comprehensive analysis that thrusts Jervis into the front ranks of nuclear essayists. ― Kirkus Reviews Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has changed the meaning of war, the psychology of statesmanship, and the formulation of military policy by the superpowers. A comprehensive analysis that thrusts Jervis into the front ranks of nuclear essayists. ― Kirkus Reviews A masterful book by one of America's preeminent strategists.... What the nuclear revolution has done is magnify in force and compress in time imperatives that were present in the pre-nuclear era; even the pursuit of unlimited victory was unrealistic. Jervis takes us through those implications in prose so lucid we feel we have known them all along. ― Foreign Affairs This subtle and powerful book confirms the standing of Robert Jervis as a strategic analyst of the first rank―indeed as the best of all in assessing the connections between perception and reality. -- McGeorge Bundy Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy , also from Cornell, and, most recently, American Foreign Policy in a New Era.