Alternative Nuclear Futures

Stephen J. Cimbala, Contemporary Security Policy This book is valuable in providing the reader a variety of cogently argued expert assessments of important and controversial policy matters

Therese Delpech, Int. Affairs, Vol.77, No.1, Jan 01. This excellent compilation of articles will convince even the most sceptical readers of the 'unavoidable importance of nuclear weapons', as George Quester puts it, and regrettably, of the difficulty there might be in preserving nuclear peace through the coming decades.

Therese Delpech, Int. Affairs, Vol.77, No.1, Jan 01. All experts on nuclear issues should read this book and reflect on its contents, while those outside this limited world will be able to recognise many diverse approaches to an issue that can hardly remain the exclusive property of experts.

"This is a very important book, peculiarly apt for the new millennium...The authors are all world-class experts on nuclear weapons, and on the ramifications of nuclear politics, nuclear strategy and nuclear dangers." The Tablet, 11/03/2000, Brian Wicker

Preface: The Contemporary Debate about Nuclear Weapons; 1. To Confuse Ourselves: Nuclear Fallacies; 2. The Unavoidable Importance of Nuclear Weapons; 3. Aspiration, Realism and Practical Policy; 4. Eliminators, Marginalists and the Politics of Disarmament; 5. Nuclear Weapons, Prudence and Morality: The Search for a Third Way; 6. Nuclear Weapons and the Post-Cold War Middle East: Business as Usual; 7. The South Asian Nuclear Challenge; 8. Nuclear Disarmament: The Case for Incrimentalism; 9. The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons; 10. Reflecting on War in the 21st Century: The Context for Nuclear Abolition; 11. At the End of a Journey: The Risks of Cold War Thinking in a New Era; 12. Weapons of the Under Dog; Appendix 1: Prepared Statement on the Future of Nuclear Deterrence; Appendix 2: Legality of the use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Confict; Appendix 3: 1996 Pronouncement on Nuclear Weapons; Appendix 4: Executive Summary