Hard to find original single issue of the New York Review of Books for 18 August 1983. A very good copy with a tad of edgewear to wrappers. 

For complete contents, see photo #2. 

Highlights include:

An "Exchange" between Republican Defense Secretary Cap Weinbegerr and Theodore Draper on the topic of nuclear war. This is an item of some interest, especially when Weinberger insists that the good ole USA might win a nuclear war with the Russians. This is some years before Weinberger was indicted in the Iran-Contra fiasco for perjury and obstruction of justice. He was saved from the bell, of course, by Bush #1, who pardoned him and others in the Reagan gang before a jury could get at them.  

A new poem by the great Polish poet, Zbigniew Herbert, here translated by another great poet, Lithuanian Czeslaw Milosz. It's called "Report from a Besieged City."

Neal Ascherson on the life and downfall of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.

Raymond Carr on a new history of Puerto Rico by Arturo Morales Carrion, et al. 

Jonathan Lieberson on three new works on the emerging AIDS epidemic.

Robert M. Adams on a new work devoted to the life of Sylvia Beach by Noel Riley Fitch.

English poet, critic and editor Ian Hamilton on Martin Seymour-Smith's new biography of poet Robert Graves.

Numerous other essays and reviews, letters, etc. See photos for more contents.