1st Edition
Caging The Genies A Workable Solution For Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Weapons
By Stansfield Turner
Copyright 1999
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Cold War may be over, but you wouldn't know it from the tens of thousands of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction still held by Russia, the United States, and other world powers. Arguing that the time has come to dispense with incremental approaches to arms control, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the former head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander,... Read more
* Acknowledgments * Acronyms * Introduction Part One: The Problem * 1. The Spell Cast by Weapons of Mass Destruction Part Two: The Theory * 2. Points of Non-recovery * 3. Points of Self-Deterrence * 4. Controlled Response Part Three: The Solution * 5. Strategic Escrow * 6. No First-Use * 7. Defenses * 8. Global Management * 9. Reshaping Decisionmaking * 10. The Sine Qua Non: Citizen Support * Appendix A: Lethality of Nuclear Weapons * Appendix B: Excerpts from "Nuclear Crash:The U.S. Economy After Small Nuclear Attacks," M. Anjali Sastry, Joseph J. Romm, and Kosta Tsipis * Appendix C: Calculation of Russian Forces Surviving a U.S. Preemptive Attack * Notes * Index
Biography
Stansfield Turner
