I think Steve may be right.  Millennium is part of a series of books
Ben Bova wrote called the Kinsman Saga.
Alex Grossman

>In a message dated 5/15/01 10:42:16 AM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
>writes:
>
><< A friend asked about the following novel he read in the 1980s which he
>  thinks might be called the Pendulum:
>
>  The US and the Soviet Union work together to get a base on the
>  moon.  Eventually this cooperative measure falls apart and the moon base
>  is split into US/Soviet sides with a cold war raging on Earth.  There are
>  killer satellites around the planet, half controlled by each
>  government. When the planetary governments decide to make the war hot, the
>  US and Soviet moon base commanders step in and take over the satellites,
>  refusing to let the Earth be blown apart.
>
>  Does this ring any bells?  Any one have a author and full title?  Thanks
>  for your help. >>
>
>I think that this would be "Millennium" by Ben Bova. The jacket copy says, in
>part:
>
>Meanwhi.le, a few hundred kilometers above the Earth's surface, on their
>respective Moon colonies, the U. S. and the Sov. Union feverishly race to
>complete networks of ABM satellites to protect themselves from missile attack.
>
><snip>
>
>Two men are deeply involved in this potential holocaust: the heads of the
>American and Russian colonies...
>
>Sounds like the same book to me. I have a first edition (courtesy of a
>stepbrother who used to work for Random House), and the copyright date reads
>1976.
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. - Mark
>Twain


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