Background
Powaski, Ronald E. was born on June 15, 1943 in Cleveland. Son of Stanley Andrew and Adeline Cecelia (Barnas) Powaski.
(When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective s...)
When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear confrontation between superpowers appeared to vanish overnight. As we approach the new millennium, however, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to ever more belligerent countries and factions raises alarming new concerns about the threat of nuclear war. In Return to Armageddon, Ronald Powaski assesses the dangers that beset us as we enter an increasingly unstable political world. With the START I and II treaties, completed by George Bush in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), signed by Bill Clinton in 1996, it seemed as if the nuclear clock had been successfully turned back to a safer hour. But Powaski shows that there is much less reason for optimism than we may like to think. Continued U.S.-Russian cooperation can no longer be assured. To make matters worse, Russia has not ratified the START II Treaty and the U.S. Senate has failed to approve the CTBT. Perhaps even more ominously, the effort to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons by nonweapon states is threatened by nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan. The nuclear club is growing and its most recent members are increasingly hostile. Indeed, it is becoming ever more difficult to keep track of the expertise and material needed to build nuclear weapons, which almost certainly will find their way into terrorist hands. Accessible, authoritative, and provocative, Return to Armageddon provides both a comprehensive account of the arms control process and a startling reappraisal of the nuclear threat that refuses to go away.
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( From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history T...)
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station heard a knock on his car window. A man on the curb handed him an envelope whose contents stunned U.S. intelligence: details of top-secret Soviet research and developments in military technology that were totally unknown to the United States. In the years that followed, the man, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer in a Soviet military design bureau, used his high-level access to hand over tens of thousands of pages of technical secrets. His revelations allowed America to reshape its weapons systems to defeat Soviet radar on the ground and in the air, giving the United States near total superiority in the skies over Europe. One of the most valuable spies to work for the United States in the four decades of global confrontation with the Soviet Union, Tolkachev took enormous personal risks—but so did the Americans. The CIA had long struggled to recruit and run agents in Moscow, and Tolkachev was a singular breakthrough. Using spy cameras and secret codes as well as face-to-face meetings in parks and on street corners, Tolkachev and his handlers succeeded for years in eluding the feared KGB in its own backyard, until the day came when a shocking betrayal put them all at risk. Drawing on previously secret documents obtained from the CIA and on interviews with participants, David Hoffman has created an unprecedented and poignant portrait of Tolkachev, a man motivated by the depredations of the Soviet state to master the craft of spying against his own country. Stirring, unpredictable, and at times unbearably tense, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting that unfolds like an espionage thriller.
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Powaski, Ronald E. was born on June 15, 1943 in Cleveland. Son of Stanley Andrew and Adeline Cecelia (Barnas) Powaski.
Bachelor, John Carroll University, Cleveland, 1964. Master of Arts, John Carroll University, Cleveland, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1972.
Professor history Cleveland State University, Cleveland, since 1969. Teacher professional growth instructor Euclid Board of Education, Euclid, Ohio, since 1990. Summer course instructor Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, 1989—1999.
( From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history T...)
(When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective s...)
Chairperson Commission on Catholic Community Action, Cleveland, 1988. Founding chair person University N. Organization, 1986. Member of Society of History of America Fgn.Rels., Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, American Association of Variable Star Observers.
Married Jo Ann Klein Sirk, December 17, 1978. Children: Andrew, Kimberley, Leslie, Juliana, Kenneth, Daniel.