Arms Control and Disarmament: 50 Years of Experience in Nuclear Education

ISBN-13: 9783319622583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 371 str.

Paolo Foradori; Giampiero Giacomello; Alessandro Pascolini

Opis

This volume is a collection of contributions by world-leading experts in the nuclear field who participated in the educational activities of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO).

Recenzje

"Arms Control and Disarmament makes a specific, well-documented, and fascinating point about arms control and about nuclear weaponry policies and challenges more broadly. ... This book should be in all university libraries. While mainly focused on US and Soviet/Russian history, the broad-ranging and still relevant ideas allow the extension of the lessons learned to more current issues. Each essay is a masterpiece that deserves study. Building such a collection in one volume makes this a 'must-have' book." (Sebastien Bleunven, H-Net Reviews Humanities and Social Sciences, networks.h-net.org, October, 2019)

Spis treści

 

Preface by Carlo Schaerf

 

Introduction by Alessandro Pascolini

 

Part I - Early Attempts to Arms Control: 1966-1974

1. Bernard Feld, Technological Aspects of World Security (1966)
2. Francesco Calogero, Anti-Ballistic Missiles (1968)
3. Anatol Rapoport, International Relations and Game Theory (1970)
4. Herbert F York, The Origins of Mirv (1972)
5. Thomas Schelling, The Importance of Agreements (1972)
6. Hans Morgenthau, The Fallacy of Thinking Conventionally about Nuclear Weapons (1976)
7. Michail A Milstein, Strategic Arms Limitation and Military Strategic Concepts (1976)

 

Part II - The Hard Times: 1978-1989

1. Joseph Rotblat, Radiation Hazards in Fission Fuel Cycles (1978)
2. Lawrence Freedman, The Dilemma of European Theatre Nuclear Arms Control (1980)
3.  George Bunn, Nuclear Arms Control: Obstacles to Agreement (1982)
4.  David Carlton, International Systemic Features Inhibiting Disarmament and Arms Control (1982)
5.  Cui Liru, The Problem of the Nuclear First-Use Option (1988)
6.  Jane M Sharp, The Problem of Extended Deterrence in NATO (1988)
7.  Richard H Ullman, Minimum Deterrence and International Security (1988)

 

Part III - After the Cold War

1.  Richard Garwin, Weapons on Earth and in Space (1992).
2.  Harald Müller, The Non-Proliferation Treaty and the German Choice Not to Proliferate (1992)
3.  Frank von Hippel, and Oleg Bukharin, US-Russian Cooperation on Fissile Material Security and Disposition (1996)
4.  Patricia Lewis, The New Verification Game and Technologies at our Disposal (1996)
5.  Alexei Arbatov, Nuclear Deterrence, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation (2010)
6.  Matthew A Evangelista, Nuclear Abolition or Nuclear Umbrella? Choices and Contradictions in US Proposals (2010)

 

Conclusion by Paolo Foradori and Giampiero Giacomello

O autorze

Paolo Foradori is Associate Professor of Political Science, School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy.

 Giampiero Giacomello is Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy.

 Alessandro Pascolini is a theoretical physicist and senior scholar at the University of Padua, Italy. He is vice-president of ISODARCO.

 

Blurb

"Few volumes on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy can match the quality of the ISODARCO 50th Anniversary collection, which excels in the authors' thoughtfulness and the range and significance of the issues they clarify."

- Bruce D. Larkin, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA

  "This interesting volume brings together a stellar cast of international experts on nuclear policy and arms control.  Their contributions echo the history of the nuclear age over more than five decades and display the evolution of thinking about the dangers and the imperatives associated with nuclear weapons.  This collection also reflects the unique role that ISODARCO has played in the field for more than half a century."

- Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

  "This collection of essays featuring many of the leading thinkers on nuclear disarmament, arms control and verification should be essential reading for both practitioners and researchers in the field.”

- Tariq Rauf, former Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination, International Atomic Energy Agency

This volume is a collection of contributions by world-leading experts in the nuclear field who participated in the educational activities of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO). It features some of most prominent scholars and practitioners who contributed in fundamental ways to shaping policies, strategies, theories, scholarly studies, and debates in the field of non-proliferation and disarmament. On the occasion of ISODARCO's 50th anniversary this book revisits a selection of contributions that capture the pressing issues during the five decades of continuous engagement in disarmament and non-proliferation education.