“Scott gives us a fascinatingly intimate account of the bumpy on-site road to effective inspection/verification. Bumpy even in the presence of the mutual trust existing at the time. That trust is now squandered. God help us.” — RAY McGOVERN, Former senior CIA analyst for Soviet/Russian affairs

“Ritter’s riveting personal history of nuclear arms control as seen from the inside, with its intense personal and institutional conflicts, could not come at a more propitious moment. Ritter is telling us that America’s dispute with Russia today must not prevent the renewal of serious arms talks, with all of their difficulty.” — SEYMOUR HERSH, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist

“Scott Ritter’s book could not be timelier…” — DANIEL ELLSBERG , author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner