Jump-Start; Retaking the Initiative to Reduce Post-Cold War Nuclear Dangers
Richard Fitzhugh (Cover Art) Washington DC: Committee on Nuclear Policy, 1999. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], 24 pages. Illustrations. Press release laid in. The Committee on Nuclear Policy was coordinated by and located at The Henry L. Stimson Center. The Stimson Center, named after Henry L. Stimson, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank which aims to enhance international peace and security through a combination of analysis and outreach. The Center's stated approach is pragmatic seeking to provide policy alternatives, solve problems, and overcome obstacles towards a more peaceful and secure world.
Stimson seeks to offer pragmatic solutions and policy-relevant information and analysis on a range of global issues to decision-makers. It focuses on a range of challenges to peace and prosperity such as nuclear proliferation, arms trafficking, and responses to humanitarian crises. Stimson seeks to provide expertise for the policymaking community – the U.S. executive and legislative branches, international institutions and governments, and policy research institutions – as well as academia and the public. The Committee felt that the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks should be supplemented with new initiatives--immediate, parallel, and reciprocal actions. The committee advocated that nuclear force levels needed to be reduced nuclear forces to levels far lower than had been then envisioned. They also advocated that fissile materials should be secured, monitored and greatly reduced. This report contains a series of disturbing incidents in Russia that demonstrate the urgency with which the risks of accidental or unauthorized launch of Russian missiles, or of poorly protected bomb-making materials falling into hostile hands, must be addressed. Among the members of the Committee on Nuclear Policy were: Joseph Cirincione, Alan Cranston, Andrew Goodpaster, Kenneth Luongo, Robert McNamara, John Steinbruner, Stansfield Turner, and Frank von Hippel. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Fissile Materials, Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons, Verification, Nuclear Alert, Deterrence, Nuclear Forces, Hair-Trigger
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