TABLE OF CONTENTS


Foreword by Howard Zinn

Prologue: Back to the Future

1 The Final Epidemic

2 Early Russian Connections

3 The Sudden Cardiac Death Task Force: US-Soviet Collaboration

4 The Friendship Strategy: Building Trust to Sustain Life

5 “For Your Six-Month-Old Grandson”

6 “You Can’t Trust the Russians”: A Fragile Alliance in Geneva

7 “Doctors of the World, Unite!”

8 “More Sweat, Less Blood”

9 Cambridge, England: The Military Brass Came Marching In

10 We Dominate Soviet TV for One Hour

11 The Catholic Church Defends My Left Flank

12 “Pay Attention to Gorbachev!” “But Who Is He?”

13 A Nuclear Game of Chicken: Reagan Leads the Cold War

14 Message for Tomorrow: The Third Congress, Amsterdam

15 Brinkmanship: KAL Flight 007 Shot Down

16 Andropov’s Message in a Time of Crisis

17 The Year without a Summer: Nuclear Winter

18 “No Arsonist Will Be Invited!”

19 Endless Daylight in Helsinki

20 Mothers Fight Back


21 “No Peace without Justice”

22 Gorbachev Challenges the Nuclear Status Quo

23 The Medical Prescription: No Trust Required

24 The Nobel Prize: My Mother Expected It

25 A Space Traveler’s Puzzle

26 Cooperation, Not Confrontation: A Long Conversation with Gorbachev

Epilogue: From Communism to Terrorism

IPPNW Time Line
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author