Raymond L. "Ray" Garthoff is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution

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, a specialist on arms control

Arms control

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, intelligence, the Cold War

Cold War

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, NATO, and the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. He is a former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, and has advised U.S. State Department on treaties. He has a B.A. from Princeton in 1948, a M.A. in 1949 and PhD from Yale in 1951. He is the author of numerous scholarly papers, books, and has been featured on PBS

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 documentaries. He is well known for his refutation of Team B

Team B

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's and Richard Pipes

Richard Pipes

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's characterization of Soviet nuclear doctrine.

Articles

• www.brookings.edu Putin's Policies Promise Measured Change, Los Angeles Times, 2000-04-02 Accessed: 2007-12-15

Books

• Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis: Revised to Include New Revelations from Soviet & Cuban Sources (Revised) by Raymond Garthoff (Paperback - Jun 2, 1989

• The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Raymond L. Garthoff The Brookings Institution, 1994, 834 pp.

• Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan by Raymond L. Garthoff (Paperback - Oct 1994)

• Deterrence and the Revolution in Soviet Military Doctrine by Raymond L. Garthoff (Paperback - Oct 1990)

• Soviet Military Policy; A Historical Analysis by Raymond L. Garthoff (Hardcover - 1966)

• Soviet Strategy in the Nuclear Age *Praeger Pubs. in Russian History and World Communism, No. 71** by Raymond L. Garthoff (Hardcover - 1958)

• Policy Versus the Law: The Reinterpretation of the Abm Treaty by Raymond L. Garthoff (Paperback - Oct 1987)

• Sino-Soviet Military Relations by Raymond L. Garthoff (Unknown Binding - 1966)

• A Journey Through the Cold War: A Memoir of Containment and Coexistence by Raymond L. Garthoff (Hardcover - Jun 30, 2001)

• Assessing the Adversary: Estimates by the Eisenhower Administration of Soviet Intentions and Capabilities (Brookings Occasional Papers) by Raymond L. Garthoff (Paperback - Sep 1991)

• Soviet Image of Future War by Raymond Garthoff (Hardcover - Jun 1959)

• Intelligence Assessment and Policymaking: A Decision Point in the Kennedy Administration by Raymond L. Garthoff (Paperback - Jul 1984)

• Science and Technology in Contemporary War **Praeger Pubs. in Russian History and World Communism, No.74** by MG G.I. (Raymond L. Garthoff, Translator/Annotator) Pokrovsky (Hardcover - 1959)

• The tragedy of Hungary: A revolution won and lost (P-984) by Raymond L Garthoff (Unknown Binding - 1956)

• The Soviet High Command and General Staff (P-684) by Raymond L Garthoff (Unknown Binding - 1955

• Détente and Confrontation American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan by Garthoff Raymond L. (Hardcover - 1985)

• The new Soviet leadership Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corp. by Raymond L Garthoff (Unknown Binding - 1953)

External sources

• GWU NSA Archive INTERVIEW WITH RAYMOND GARTHOFF-29.8.1996 accessed Dec 15, 2007