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A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World:

Desirable? Feasible?


A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Desireable? Feasible?

Edited by Joseph Rotblat

©1993 Westview Press


  1. Historical Review

    • Past Attempts to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
      Joseph Rotblat

  2. Desirability of a NWFW

    • Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War
      Carl Kaysen, Robert McNamara, and George Rathjens
    • A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Is it Desirable? Is It Necessary?
      Jack Steinberger, Essam Galal, and Mikhail Milstein

  3. Feasibility of a NWFW

    • Technological Problems of Verification
      Theodore Taylor
    • The Breakout Problem
      Marvin Miler and Jack Ruina
    • Societal Verification
      Joseph Rotblat
    • A NWFW Regime: Treaty for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
      Maxwell Bruce, Horst Fischer, and Thomas Mensah

    • Verification and Enforcement in a NWFW
      James Leonard, Martin Kaplan, and Benjamin Sanders

    • International Security in a NWFW
      Shalheveth Freier
    • Making Nuclear Weapons Illegal
      Jozef Goldblat

  4. Part D Alternative Routes to a NWFW

    • Nuclear Weapons for the United Nations?
      Richard Garwin
    • An International Nuclear Security Force
      Vitalii Goldanskii and Stanislav Rodionov
    • An Asymptotic Approach to a NWFW
      Francesco Calogero

  5. Part E Intermediate Steps

    • Approaches Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World
      Bhalchandra Udgaonkar, Raja Mohan, and Maj. Britt Theorin

  6. Index