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The author of this study argues that nuclear weapons and the psychology of nuclear deterrence will remain important after 2000, but the character of that importance will change. Advanced technology conventional weapons based on information and electronics become more strategically important

With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.S. defense policy, it is time to reassess basic questions of American nuclear strategy and force requirements. In a comprehensive analysis of these issues, Charles Glaser argues that even before the recent easing of tension with the Soviet Union, the United States should have revised its nuclear strategy, rejecting deterrent threats that require the ability to destroy Soviet nuclear forces and forgoing entirely efforts to limit damage if all-out nuclear war occurs. Changes in the Soviet Union, sugg

"This series started in 1981 with the Erice Seminars when the danger of a nuclear East-West confrontation was menacing the world. The volumes reproduce the crucial steps, from the Nuclear Winter to the Strategic Defense Initiative. After the collapse of the U.S.S.R., new emergencies are now to be faced such as the danger of proliferation of Weapons for Mass Destruction (WMD), the North-South confrontation on ecological problems and the new deal for Science and Technology to help developing countries in their struggle for a better standard of life. The Erice Seminars have attracted the attention of world leaders in Science, Technology and Culture."--Publisher's website

It is argued that the world will become increasingly dependent on nuclear energy as conventional fossil fuels are depleted. Failure to develop peaceful uses of nuclear energy may contribute to the use of destructive nuclear weapons as nations war over scarce fossil fuels. Yet the idea of nuclear-free zoning may be counterproductive, because all matter is built of nuclei, & nuclear techniques are used in pacemakers, cancer treatment, & other socially progressive ways. It does not seem likely that human beings will be persuaded to abandon the quality of life provided by nuclear technology. 4 Tables, 1 Appendix. Modified HA.

"This series started in 1981 with the Erice Seminars when the danger of a nuclear East-West confrontation was menacing the world. The volumes reproduce the crucial steps, from the Nuclear Winter to the Strategic Defense Initiative. After the collapse of the U.S.S.R., new emergencies are now to be faced such as the danger of proliferation of Weapons for Mass Destruction (WMD), the North-South confrontation on ecological problems and the new deal for Science and Technology to help developing countries in their struggle for a better standard of life. The Erice Seminars have attracted the attention of world leaders in Science, Technology and Culture."--

The development of nuclear strategy / Bernard Brodie -- Nuclear strategy: a case for a theory of victory / Colin Gray -- Deterrence and perception / Robert Jervis -- Inadvertent nuclear war? escalation and NATO's northern flank / Barry R. Posen -- The origins of overkill: nuclear weapons and American strategy, 1945-1960 / David Alan Rosenberg -- U.S. strategic nuclear concepts in the 1970s: the search for sufficiently equivalent countervailing parity / Warner R. Schilling -- U.S. strategic forces: how would they be used? / Desmond Ball -- The countervailing strategy / Walter Slocombe -- The political potential of equivalence / Benjamin S. Lambeth -- The political utility of nuclear weapons: the 1973 Middle East crisis / Barry Blechman and Douglas Hart

"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons; created the response plans; and been responsible for those decisions should they need to have been made. Nuclear War: A Scenario is unlike any other book in its depth and urgency"--