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The nixon and administration. Jeff had written a major book on nixon and the vietnam war, while i had written on kissinger and was trying to get documents on the alert declassified. More research and eventually had enough source material to write an article. Its published in cold war history in early 2003. We give the first full account of the alert and argued that the Readiness Test as it was officially known, was an exercise in the context of the stalled negotiations on the vietnam war. Warn wanted to end the quickly and was angry with the soviets and soviet leadership for not helping to arrange a settlement. By putting u. S. Nuclear forces and conventional forces on high readiness, nixon wanted to joel sovietsold jolk to end the war quickly. Those were some of the key elements of the argument we presented in the article. Later, with more sources become available, we decided there was enough material to justify a book on the oct ....

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