When President Carter named General Seignious director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Mr. Buckley begins, "the ready inference was that [he] had pulleda fast one, that he had persuaded a hawkish general to take on the job of selling SALT II." Whether it was a fast one or not, General Seignious was indeed selling SALT II, not as an end in itself but as a step along the way: "I would like to see us get into very deep reductions and particularly in warheads, because those are the things that kill people and kill cities and kill cultures and kill our way of life." The discussion is highly technical, but both host and guest give us plenty of detail to bring us along, whether on the different sorts of missiles, on the parallels or lack of them between Hitler at Munich and the

current treaty, or on the advantages and disadvantages to an anti-ballistic-missile system.