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Caging the nuclear genie : an American challenge for global security

Title
Caging the nuclear genie : an American challenge for global security / Stansfield Turner.
Author
Turner, Stansfield, 1923-2018
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, ©1997.

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Description
xi, 163 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The Cold War may be over, but you wouldn't know it from the tens of thousands of nuclear weapons still held by Russia and the United States. Arguing that the time has come to dispense with incremental approaches to arms control, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the former head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander, proposes a practical yet safe plan that would move the world into a new and secure era. Turner carefully analyzes how many nuclear weapons are really needed to maintain our national security, regardless of how many weapons of mass destruction other nations may have. He then offers a dramatic, unilateral American initiative - to place all of the world's nuclear warheads in "strategic escrow" whereby none would be ready for immediate use; to initiate a pledge of "no first-use" and call on other nations to do the same; and to build national defenses against nuclear attack when they become cost-effective.
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • No first use (Nuclear strategy)
  • Security, International
  • Nuclear weapons > International cooperation
  • Nuclear weapons > International cooperation
  • Security, International
  • Erstschlag
  • Kernwaffe
  • Rüstungsbegrenzung
  • Sicherheitspolitik
  • Verzicht
  • Russland
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-155) and index.
Contents
The problem. The spell cast by nuclear weapons -- The theory. Points of non-recovery. Points of self-deterrence. Controlled response -- The solution. Strategic escrow. No first-use. Defenses. A new vision. Reshaping decisionmaking. The Sine qua non -- citizen support -- The lethality of nuclear weapons -- Excerpts from "Nuclear Crash -- The U.S. Economy After Small Nuclear Attacks," / M. Anjali Sastry, Joseph J. Romm, and Kosta Tsipis -- Calculation of Russian forces surviving a U.S. preemptive attack.
ISBN
  • 0813333288
  • 9780813333281
LCCN
97019178
OCLC
  • ocm36884178
  • 36884178
  • SCSB-2127182
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library