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"At long last, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had come to an agreement about weapon control, a genuine reduction in arms. How was it maintained? By dedicated arms inspectors, backed by all the technology available to determined governments. But there were hawks on both sides who resented the agreement, and were resolved to overturn it. Particularly in a Presidential election year.... In Russia, a famous microbiologist was confined to a mental home, in a planned environment of great complexity. Was it for real? Or was it a well-equipped laboratory in which he could steal a march on the U.S.- and bury the treaty?"--Back cover.