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The
Nuclear Arms Race
Debated
Herbert M Levine
David Carlton
McGraw-Hill Book Company
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Contents
Editors x
List of Contributors xi
Preface xvii
Suggested Readings xxi
Acronyms xxiii
CHAPTER 1 The Nuclear Arms Race and World Politics l
1 Is it improbable that we shall be able to live indefinitely with nuclear
weapons? 11
YES Hans J Morgenthau, The Fallacy of Thinking Conventionally about
Nuclear Weapons 12
NO Harvard Nuclear Study Group (Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Stanley
Hoffmann, Samuel P Huntington, Joseph S Nye, Jr , and Scott D Sagan,Living
with Nuclear Weapons: Is There a Choice? 18
Questions for Discussion 20
Suggested Readings 20
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CONTENTS
2 Is nuclear deterrence a bankrupt ideology? 21
YES James A Stegenga, Nuclear Deterrence: Bankrupt Ideology 22
NO Caspar W Weinberger, [On Deterrence] 35
Questions for Discussion 38
Suggested Readings 38
3 Is nuclear war likely to occur by accident? 39
YES James E Muller, On Accidental Nuclear War 40
NO General James Hartinger, Nuclear War by Accident—Is It Impossible? 41
Questions for Discussion 43
Suggested Readings 43
4 Is it virtually certain that a major nuclear war would be followed by
such devastating climatic changes as to constitute a global catastrophe? 45
YES Anne Ehrlich, Nuclear Winter 46
NO Caspar W Weinberger, The Potential Effects of Nuclear War on the
Climate: A Report to the U S Congress 54
Questions for Discussion 61
Suggested Readings 61
CHAPTER 2 Nuclear Arms Limitation: General Principles 63
5 Is complete nuclear disarmament an unattainable dream? 71
YES Hedley Bull, Nuclear Disarmament 72
NO Jonathan Schell, A Deliberate Policy 75
Questions for Discussion 78
Suggested Readings 78
6 Is nuclear arms control harmful? 81
YES George F Will, Why Arms Control Is Harmful 82
NO William Proxmire, Why We Need Nuclear Arms Control 83
Questions for Discussion 85
Suggested Readings 85
7 Are unilateral measures likely to promote a slowing down of the
nuclear arms race? 87
YES Herbert Scoville Jr A Different Approach to Arms Control—Reciprocal
Unilateral Restraint 88
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NO Philip Towle, Unilateralism or Disarmament by Example 91
Questions for Discussion 99
Suggested Readings 99
CHAPTER 3 Superpower Nuclear Arms Control: Some
Prescriptions 101
8 Should SALT 11 have been ratified? 109
YES Paul C Warnke, [The Case for SALT II] 110
NO Edward Rowny, lThe Case against SALT II] 113
Questions for Discussion 122
Suggested Readings 122
9 Is a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty desirable? 123
YES Hugh E DeWitt, Debate on a Comprehensive Nuclear Weapons Test Ban:
Pro 124
NO Robert B Barker, Debate on a Comprehensive Nuclear Weapons Test Ban:
Con 132
Questions for Discussion 136
Suggested Readings 136
10 Is a bilateral nuclear freeze desirable? 139
YES Edward Kennedy, [Freeze Now!] 140
NO David H Petraeus What Is Wrong with a Nuclear Freeze? 146
Questions for Discussion 158
Suggested Readings 158
CHAPTER 4 United States Nuclear Policy Options 159
11 Should the United States act on the principles of the U S Catholic
Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace? 171
YES National Conference of Catholic Bishops on War and Peace, The Challenge
of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response (The Pastoral Letter on War and
Peace) 172
NO Keith B Payne, The Bishops and Nuclear Weapons 179
Questions for Discussion 184
Suggested Readings 184
12 Should the United States deploy the MX Missile? 185
CONTENTS
YES Brent Scowcroft, Report of the President's Commission on Strategic
Forces 186
NO Wyche Fowler, [The Case against the MX] 189
Questions for Discussion 195
Suggested Readings 195
13 Should the United States make civil defense a high priority? 197
YES Leon Goure, The Soviet Civil Defense Program and the Present U S Civil
Defense Debate 198
NO Jennifer Leaning, Civil Defense in the Nuclear Age: Strategic, Medical, and
Demographic Aspects 203
Question for Discussion 224
Suggested Readings 224
14 Should thfe United States avoid space weapons? 225
YES Sidney D Drell and Wolfgang K H Panofsky, The Case against Strategic
Defense: Technical and Strategic Realities 226
NO Robert Jastrow, Reagan vs the Scientists: Why the President Is Right about
Missile Defense 242
Questions for Discussion 255
Suggested Readings 255
15 Should the United States abandon plans for engaging in limited
nuclear warfare as embodied in Presidential Directive 59? 257
YES Louis Rene Beres, Presidential Directive 59: A Critical Assessment 258
NO Colin S Gray, Presidential Directive 59: Flawed but Useful 267
Questions for Discussion 275
Suggested Readings 275
16 Should the United States make a nuclear no-first-use declaration? 277
YES McGeorge Bundy, George F Kennan, Robert S McNamara, and Gerard
Smith Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance 278
NO Colin S Gray NATO's Nuclear Dilemma 287
Questions for Discussion 299
Suggested Readings 299
17 Should the United States aim for nuclear superiority? 301
YES Robert Jastrow, Why Strategic Superiority Matters 302
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NO Robert Jervis, Why Nuclear Superiority Doesn't Matter 309
Questions for Discussion 321
Suggested Readings 321
CHAPTER 5 The Wider Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 323
18 Would the spread of nuclear weapons to developing countries greatly
increase the risk of their use? 329
YES Lewis A Dunn, What Difference Will It Make? 330
NO K Subrahmanyam, Regional Conflicts and Nuclear Fears 344
Questions for Discussion 348
Suggested Readings 349
19 Is the quest for nuclear energy a principal dynamic in the spread of
nuclear weapons? 351
YES Victor Gilinsky, Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Bombs 352 •
NO Sir John Hill, The Driving Forces of Proliferation 358
Questions for Discussion 364
Suggested Readings 364
20 Is superpower restraint in nuclear-weapons acquisition likely to help
discourage proliferation? 367
YES Hedley Bull, The Role of the Nuclear Powers in the Management of
Nuclear Proliferation 368
NO James R Schlesinger, The Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation 374
Questions for Discussion 382
Suggested Readings 382
21 Are terrorists likely to get nuclear weapons? 383
YES Louis Rene Beres, Hie Sunt Dracones: The Nuclear Threat of International
Terrorism 384
NO Ted Greenwood, Non-State Entities 392
Questions for Discussion 397
Suggested Readings 397 |
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