To Agree or Not to Agree: Leadership, Bargaining, and Arms Control. By Lisa A. Baglione. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 215p. $49.50. The Politics of Verification. By Nancy W. Gallagher. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 311p. $45.00

When the Soviet Union disappeared, so did much of aca- demic political science's interest in nuclear arms control. This is unfortunate. First, the risk of nuclear war has not gone away and may be increasing because of nuclear proliferation. Second, U.S.-Soviet cooperation on arms control was in many ways unexpected, and it remains a useful laboratory for testing international relations theory.