Thinking About Nuclear Weapons: Analyses and Prescriptions

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PART ONE: ANALYSES The Problem of War 1. Man, the State and War Kenneth N. Waltz 2. Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe War and Deterrence 3. A Condition to Punish Harvard Nuclear Study Group 4. Thinking about Nuclear War: The Soviet View 5. Deterrence, Provocation and the Martian Temperament 6. Arms Control and Disarmament: What Can and Can't be Done Harvard Nuclear Study Group 7. Nuclear Proliferation: What Difference Will it Make? 8. Covert Nuclear Trade and the International Non-proliferation Regime Thomas F. Dorian and Leonard S. Spector 9. Warning and Intelligence PART TWO: PRESCRIPTIONS The Nuclear Forces of the Superpowers 10. Victory Is Possible Colin S. Gray and Keith Payne 11. Seeds of Promise: a Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race 12. The GRIT Strategy 13. Reagan vs. the Scientists: Why the President is Right about Missile Defense Robert Jastrow 14. The Effect on Strategic Stability of Space 15. New Directions The Security of Britain and Western Europe 16. Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance 17. Nuclear Weapons and the Preservation of Peace 18. The Future UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Force UK Ministry of Defence 19. Europe and her Defense Pierre Lellouche 20. The Rationale for Rejecting Nuclear Weapons The Alternative Defence Commission 21. Green Peace Jonathon Porritt 22. Protest and Survive E. P. Thompson and others 23. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better 24. The Abolition

Edited by Fred Holroyd, Open University

`It is really encouraging to see that such a book has been published ... No one can deny that Open University students - and all other interested parties - are given both sides of case.' - Tribune