Contemporary nuclear debates
Subtitle: missile defense, arms control, and arms races in the twenty-first century
By: edited by Alexander T.J. Lennon.
Contributors: Lennon, Alexander T.
Series: A Washington quarterly reader; A Washington quarterly reader; Washington quarterly reader
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Ballistic missile defenses -- United States.; Nuclear weapons.; Arms race.; Nuclear arms control.; World politics -- 21st century.; Science & Technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : modernizing strategic nuclear debates / Alexander T.J. Lennon; value: Pt. I.U.S. national missile defense : when and how? The politics : how did we get here? / Michael Nacht; value: A call to deploy / Stephen J. Hadley; value: A defense that will not defend / Richard L. Garwin; value: Toward missile defenses from the sea / Hans Binnendijk and George Stewart; value: Would space-based defenses improve security? / Kevin McLaughlin; value: Missile defense after the ABM Treaty / James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O'Hanlon; value: Pt. II. Global perceptions of missile defense. Brussels's burden / François Heisbourg; value: Tokyo's temperance / Yoichi Funabashi; value: New Delhi's dilemma / Brahma Chellaney; value: Israel's imperative / Efraim Karsh; value: Pyongyang's pressure / Scott Snyder; value: Tehran's tocsin / Anoushiravan Ehteshami; value: Beijing's bind / Michael McDevitt; value: Moscow's matrix / Alexander A. Pikayev; value: Pt. III. Do arms races matter anymore? Return of the nuclear debate / Leon Fuerth; value: Action-reaction metaphysics and negligence / Keith B. Payne; value: Do arms races matter? / Bruno Tertrais; value: The new arms race / Leon Sloss; value: Pt. IV. Is arms control dead? Is arms control dead? / Harold Brown; value: The demise of arms control? / James Schlesinger; value: The road ahead / Brad Roberts; value: Strengthening arms control / Thomas Graham; value: An inherent lesson / Stephen Cambone; value: Arms control in a new era / Rose Gottemoeller; value: Renovation through reassurance / John Steinbruner.