Back-Channel Triumphant: Kissinger, Dobrynin, and the 1972 Treaty on Limiting Anti-Ballistic Missile
Runner-Up of The Politica's Research Essay Prize 2021 Henry Kissinger and Anatoly Dobrynin in the Map Room at the White House, March 17, 1972 (Source: Soviet-American Relations: the Détente Years, 1969-1972) “Let us take as our goal: where peace is unknown, make it welcome; where peace is fragile, make it strong; where peace is temporary, make it permanent.” [1] ― Richard Nixon ― INTRODUCTION On a cold day in January of 1969, a US Presidential administration began with an uno