TITLE: ATLANTIC Monthly Magazine
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ISSUE DATE: AUGUST 1986; VOLUME 258 No. 2
CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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COVER: Back from the Brink: The Case for a new U. S. Nuclear Strategy. Cover illustration by Jozef Sumichrast.

ARTICLES:
BACK FROM THE BRINK -- By deciding never to initiate the use of nuclear weapons -- a departure from current policy -- the United States would enhance its security and reduce the risk of war. So conclude ten leading specialists: McGeorge Bundy, Morton H. Halperin, William W Kaufmann, George F Kennan, Robert S. McNamara, Madalene O'Donnell, Leon V. Sigal, Gerard C. Smith, Richard H. UlIman, and Paul C. Warnke.

GOD AND MAN IN NICARAGUA, CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN.
A report from the land of Sandinismo, where the fusion of a new Catholicism and a new nationalism -- of el Dios de los Pobres and el decoro nacional -- has created a potent political faith. It is the source of much of Sandinismo's Power.

REPORTS & COMMENT:
EAST ASIA: LETTER FROM TOKYO ... JAMES FALLOWS.
BERLIN: WHY THE WALL STILL STANDS ... TIMOTHY W. RYBACK.
HEALTH: AN ENDLESS DEBATE ... ELLEN RUPPEL SHELL.

HUMOR AND FICTION:
DANGERS OF HONKY-TONK DANCING ... WILLIAM C. GRUBEN.
COMFORT ... DAVID MICHAEL KAPLAN.
SPILLWAY ... GUY BILLOUT.

POETRY:
BUS TRIP ... SUSAN MITCHELL.
SEASON DUE ... ROSANNA WARREN.

BOOKS:
FDR'S SECRET SHARER ... RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY. Eisenhower: At War 1943 -- 1945 by David Eisenhower.
THE IRISH MAUPASSANT ... JOHN FOWLES. The News From Ireland by William Trevor.
BRIEF REVIEWS ... PHOEBE-LOU ADAMS.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
CONTRIBUTORS.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE AUGUST ALMANAC.
MUSIC: THE LAST ROMANTICS ... ANNALYN SWAN.
POP CULTURE: COMIC BOOKS FOR GROWN-UPS ... LLOYD ROSE.
FASHION: THE LOUVRE'S NEW GALLERY ... HOLLY BRUBACH.
ACROSTIC No. 13 ... DOROTHY OSBORNE.
THE PUZZLER ... EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON.
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