Nuclear Nixon: Ironies, puzzles, and the triumph of realpolitik

Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 126-145

  Gavin, Francis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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