Of the several accounts of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow’s

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis , 2nd edn (Longman, 1999) is the standard account. Alexandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, 'One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964, Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (W. W. Norton, 1997), had unprecedented access to the former Soviet archives, while Ernest R. May and

The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Belknap Press, 1997), provides transcripts of most of the audio recordings JFK secretly made during the episode.

The treaty milestones of these years are covered in Joseph M. Siracusa and David G. Coleman,

Depression to Cold War: A History of America from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan (Praeger, 2002), and Richard Dean Burns (ed.),

Encyclopaedia of Arms Control and Disarmament (3 vols, Charles Scribner’s sons, 1993).

Arms control efforts to limit the potential threat of strategic weaponry may be found in McGeorge Bundy,

Danger and Survival;

J. P. G. Freeman,

Britain’s Nuclear Arms Control Policy in the Context of Anglo-American Relations, 1957-68 (St Martin’s Press, 1986); Martin Goldstein,

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