Title: Defense sense :
Authors: Dellums, Ronald V.,; Miller, Richard H.; Halterman, H. Lee.; O'Heffernan, Patrick.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Ballinger Pub. Co.,
Physical description: xxx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Contents: Introduction -- Prologue : sanity and survival in the nuclear age -- Weapons for what purposes? America's strategic arsenal / Robert C. Aldridge -- Assumptions behind U.S. strategic policy / Dr. Herbert Scoville, Jr. -- The need for arms control / Paul Warnke -- What is strength in the nuclear age? / Richard J. Barnet -- Foreign policy, national security and the military budget : arms for what ends? U.S. foreign policy : imperialism and military power / Marcus G. Raskin -- National security and the Reagan arms buildup / J. William Fulbright -- Foreign policy assumptions of the Reagan military budget / Walter LaFeber -- Opening the floodgates : "arms diplomacy" of the Reagan administration / Michael T. Klare -- Administration misrepresentations of Soviet military spending / Franklyn Holzman -- Reagan's military budget : where are we going? Preparing to fight a nuclear war : the Reagan arms budget / Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque -- Reagan's policy can't work / Jeremy J. Stone --^ Cutting the defense budget / Earl C. Ravenal -- A lean, mean military budget / Paul F. Walker -- Military spending and the domestic economy : what's left to defend? Military spending and domestic bankruptcy / Seymour Melman -- The "Iron Triangle" and the American economy / Gordon Adams -- The empty pork barrel / Marion Anderson -- The military budget and American labor / William Winpisinger -- Economic conversion : retooling for peace / David Cortright -- Moral implications of the military budget : a citizen responsibility? The immorality of the arms race / Bishop John T. Walker -- "The cross of iron" / Archbishop John R. Quinn -- Duplicity and delusion in American foreign policy / Bishop Walter F. Sullivan -- Education, values and the arms race / Terry Herndon -- The medical consequences of nuclear war / H. Jack Geiger -- Democracy in military policy : leading the "leaders" / Earl Molander -- "We are all responsible" / Philip Berrigan --^ Where does this lead us? True peace is more than the absence of war -- Epilogue.
Notes: Includes testimony from congressional hearings conducted by Ronald V. Dellums. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): United States--Military policy.