Toward Nuclear Stability: A Modest Proposal for Avoiding Armageddon
Even if the United States and the USSR achieve further strategic arms limitation agreements, the balance will be precarious, the strategists on both sides will be nervous, and neither hawks nor doves will be happy. A former policy-maker in the office of the secretary of defense argues that by unilaterally abandoning certain of its nuclear missiles, this country can contribute to international stability without weakening its nuclear capabilities.