Perspectives on the arms race
By: edited by David Carlton and Carlo Schaerf.
Contributors: Carlton, David, 1938-; Schaerf, Carlo.; International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (11th : 1986 : San Miniato, Italy)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Arms race -- Congresses.; Arms control -- Congresses.; Strategic Defense Initiative -- Congresses.
Description: Of discussions / William F. Gutteridge -- The pursuit of security in the nuclear age / Robert W. Malcolmson -- Unstable peace : nuclear deterrence / Hylke Tromp -- The case against negotiations and for a reconsideration of strategy / Robert Neild -- Simulation of the short-term effects of a " limited " nuclear war in Europe / Andrea Ottolenghi -- Conventional war in the postwar international system / Catherine M. Kelleher -- Belief systems and arms control possibilities / Jane M.O. Sharp -- Technical means of verification of arms control agreements / Kosta Tsipsis -- Rendering nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete : the origins of a pipedream / David Carlton -- SDI and the NATO allies / Robert d'A. Henderson -- The technical feasibility of strategic defence / Dietrich Schroeer -- Directed-energy weapons, strategic defence and arms control / Dietrich Schroeer -- Nuclear weapons and coercive diplomacy : their impact on the developing world / K. Subrahmanyam -- The concept of nuclear-weapon-free zones / Olga S̆uković -- Brazil and disarmament / Ernst W. Hamburger -- China's defence policy / Shu Yuan H. Chang -- Understanding China's nuclear disarmament policy / Qian Xuefeng -- The debate on alternative defence policies in Italy / Paolo Farinella and Maria Clelia Spreafico.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Proceedings of the 11th International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts held in San Miniato, Italy, Aug. 20-30, 1986.