Joseph S. Nye

Living With Nuclear Weapons

At Harvard President Derek Boks request, six Harvard professors explain nuclear arms issues to help citizens understand all sides of the national security debates. The goal is to encourage public participation in policy formulation. The book emphasizes that escapism will not improve security; that idealistic plans to eliminate nuclear weapons are a form of escapism. Learning to live with nuclear weapons, they suggest, requires an understanding of the current nuclear predicament and the implications of alternative weapons and policy choices. After reviewing these matters, they emphasize that informed persons will continue to disagree, but that knowledge will improve understanding and appreciation of their differences and improve the quality of policy debates. 54 references, 5 figures, 2 tables. (DCK)

Has Arms Control Worked

A 1961 book by Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin helped set the standards for arms control negotiations. For this special forum, the Bulletin asked prominent experts whether those standards are still valid in these promising, unsettling times, and whether arms control has met them.