Preface -- Chapter 1. Nike Air Defense -- Siting -- New York -- Washington -- San Francisco -- Bell Telephone Laboratories -- Chapter 2. IBM Military Programs -- Hardware Development -- B-70 Bombing-Navigation System -- Demise of the B-70 -- Civil Defense and Shelters -- Chapter 3. The Space Guidance Center and Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missiles -- SLAM -- Pluto Reactor -- Radiation-Resistant Computer -- Chapter 4. Strategic Bombers, Missiles & Armaments -- B-52 Re-Instrumentation Study -- Air Force Priorities -- The Small Air-to-Surface Missile, or SRAM -- Electro-Optical Sensors -- Multipurpose Long Endurance Aircraft -- IBM Diversification -- Consequences of the B-52 Study -- Boeing Company -- Martin Marietta Company -- New Business Plan -- A New Strategic Bomber -- Manned Aircraft Strategic Systems Group (MASSG) -- Air Staff & SPO Support -- SAWSEU II -- Chapter 5. New Bomber Avionics -- Shaping Public Opinion -- AMSA Avionics Proposal -- ASSB Program Growth -- Experiment Five -- Experiment Six: Simulation Laboratory -- Tactical Avionics Programs -- Chapter 6. A-7D/E Avionics Program -- A-7D/E Avionics Proposals -- Competition -- Final Phase -- Negotiations -- On Notice -- Open Door Policy -- Survival -- Last Interview -- Chapter 7. Bomber & AWACS Advocacy, and More Avionics -- The B-52 Program -- Titan III Computer -- AMSA Avionics Program -- AWACS, or Airborne Warning and Control System -- AMSA Program -- B-52 Transfer -- B-1 Advocacy -- B-1 Liaison & Reviews -- Management -- Chapter 8. B-1 Avionics Competitions -- B-1 Avionics Competition -- End Game -- Market Requirements -- B-1 Advocacy -- B-1 Avionics Finale -- End Game -- Chapter 9. Program Analyses & Selection -- Space Shuttle -- SECRAC -- Higher Defense Costs -- World Trends and Program Selectivity -- 1973 Israeli War -- Chapter 10. Air Force Invitational Orders -- B-1 Advocacy Study.

Studies -- World-Wide Military Command & Control System-II (WWMCCS-II) -- Renewed Orders -- US & USSR Strategic Forces Study -- Counterforce Model -- Chapter 11. Program Management & Congressional Liaison -- B-1 Computer -- Technology Transfer -- MI 10-24 -- Defense Science Board -- B-1 Program in Congress -- Soviet Strategic Forces -- US Strategic Forces -- MX-C3 Red Team -- Chapter 12. New Invitational Orders -- Methodology -- Threat Synthesis -- GOSG -- Preliminary Results -- Target Structures -- Force Effectiveness -- Clerical Comparisons -- Counterforce Calculations -- End Game -- Audits & Presentations -- SAC -- Follow On -- Ambassador Watson -- Reagan Transition -- Drumming Up Support -- Chapter 13. Reagan Transition Team -- Threats -- Liaison -- USAF Aeronautical Systems Division -- Protocols -- Defense Science Board -- USAF Headquarters -- W. H. Taft, IV -- OSD Panel -- Townes Committee -- DIA Liaison -- Final DOD Initiatives -- Civil Agencies -- Chapter 15. Senate Testimony & House Study -- Senator Tower -- Senator Laxalt and Senator Garn -- Testimony -- Censors -- Lt. Colonel Montoulli -- Senator Tower Reacts -- The House -- Interior Committee Staff Study -- End Game -- Think Tanks -- Thomas Watson, Jr. -- Chapter 15. Reagan's Decisions, & Senate Testimony -- President Reagan's Decisions -- The Press and the Public React -- Joint Chiefs -- HASC -- Senate Testimony -- Hearings -- Reactions -- Boeing -- Chapter 16. House Testimony & ICBM Basing -- HASC Testimony -- Ron Mann -- T.K. Jones, OSD -- MX Basing -- Dense Pack -- Chapter 17. Military, Industrial & Congressional Liaison -- Army BMD -- Hudson Institute -- HASC -- Boston Globe -- Defense Week -- Townes II -- NSC -- Chapter 18. IBM Exodus -- STARS Proposal Team -- Chapter 19. The President's Commission on Strategic Forces & Testimony to the House -- HASC -- To Harden or Not to Harden.

Commission's Report -- House III -- Hearings -- The Soviets -- Testimony -- B-1 Bombers -- Chapter 20. US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, ACDA -- ASAT-Option 9 -- Verne Wattawa -- SDI Tour -- Negotiating with the Soviets -- Supporting Groups -- NORAD & DSB -- Public Diplomacy -- Chapter 21. NST Round III - Geneva -- Ambassador Kampelman -- First Plenaries -- Soviet Surprise -- ACDA -- Assignments -- Chapter 22. NST Rounds IV-VI -- Round IV -- Contention -- Disaster in Space -- Soviet Initiative -- First Interim -- Washington Lunches -- Transition Study -- Round V -- Summer Break -- Round VI -- End of Round -- Chapter 23. NST Round VII & Space Policy -- Negotiations -- New Milieu -- Back-Stopping -- Space Policy -- Next -- Chapter 24. NST Rounds IX & X -- Analyses -- Negotiations -- End of Round -- Round X -- Stateside-1 -- Geneva -- SDI -- Acting Executive Secretary -- Stateside-2 -- Geneva Again & Again -- Stateside-3 -- Chapter 25. One Last Strategic Study -- Chapter 26. Strategic Nuclear Parity -- Today's Balance of Power -- Milieu of the US Armed Services -- National Problems -- Acknowledgements.