The ensuing chess match between the two superpowers would consume the better part of the next 30 years, and it would take a handful of men, brilliant, sometimes arrogant, accompanied by courageous leadership and bold policy that combined both confrontation and negotiation in order to pull the world back from the precipice of destruction it precariously rested. ... By the 1970's, the destructive capabilities of the world's two superpowers along with an emerging third power in the nation of China, had combined to make the world a dangerously unstable place. ... By 1971, tensions between the US a...

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