The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1997. presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. viii, 110, [2] pages. Boxes. Notes. Appendixes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) is a standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences. CISAC was created in 1980 to bring the Academy's scientific and technical talent to bear on crucial problems of peace and security. This report was based on an exhaustive reexamination of the issues addressed tin the Committee's 1991 report on The Future of the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Relationship. It describes the state to which U.S. and Russian nuclear forces and policies have evolved since the Cold War ended, the reasons why further evolution is desirable, and the shape of a regime of progressive constraints responses to these reasons. It concludes with a discussion of the conditions and means under which, in the longer term, it could becomes desirable and feasible to prohibit the possession of nuclear weapons altogether. More