At the end of World War II, the Allies were unanimous in their determination to disarm the former aggressor Germany. As the Cold War intensified, however, the decision whether to reverse that policy and to rearm West Germany led to disagreements both within the U.S. government a…
Explores ways to live and survive in a nuclear age and examines the key areas of public morality, weapons technology, and international policy.
"The 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has proven the most complicated and controversial of all arms control treaties, both in principle and in practice. Statements of nuclear-weapon States from the Cold War to the present, led by the United States, show a disproportionate p…
"Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation: A New Grand Bargain proposes a new legal and institutional framework for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons. Its proposal is designed to remedy the widely acknowledged breakdown of the architecture of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Trea…
Based on a two-day tutorial on the problems of arms control and international security held by the National Academy of Sciences in 1984, this timely and authoritative volume describes the history and status of the arms control debate and presents a wide variety of views in a non…