50 Years of Experience in Nuclear Education
Edited by Paolo Foradori, Giampiero Giacomello, Alessandro Pascolini
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
371 pages
ISBN 9783319622590
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.
List of acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Paolo Foradori, Giampiero Giacomello, Alessandro Pascolini
Part I – Early Attempts to Arms Control
Technological Aspects of World Security
Bernard T. Feld
Anti-ballistic Missiles
Francesco Calogero
International Relations and Game Theory
Anatol Rapoport
The Origins of MIRV
Herbert F. York
The Importance of Agreements
Thomas Schelling
The Fallacy of Thinking Conventionally about Nuclear Weapons
Hans J. Morgenthau
Strategic Arms Limitation and Military Strategic Concepts
Michail A. Milstein
Part II – The Hard Times, 1978-1989
Radiation Hazards in Fission Fuel Cycles
Joseph Rotblat
The Dilemma of European Theatre Nuclear Arms Control
Lawrence Freedman
Nuclear Arms Control: Obstacles to Agreement
George Bunn
International Systemic Features Inhibiting Disarmament and Arms Control
David Carlton
The Problem of the Nuclear First-Use Option
Cui Liru
The Problem of Extended Deterrence in NATO
Jane M. O. Sharp
Minimum Deterrence and International Security
Richard H. Ullman
Part III – After the Cold War
Weapons on Earth and in Space: Global Security in the New International Situation
Richard L. Garwin
The Non-Proliferation Treaty and the German Choice Not to Proliferate
Harald Müller
US-Russian Cooperation on Fissile Material Security and Disposition
Frank von Hippel and Oleg Bukharin
The New Verification Game and Technologies at our Disposal
Patricia Lewis
Nuclear Deterrence, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation
Alexei G. Arbatov
Nuclear Abolition or Nuclear Umbrella? Choices and Contradictions in United States Proposals
Matthew Evangelista
Conclusion: ISODARCO as an Epistemic Community
Paolo Foradori, Giampiero Giacomello, Alessandro Pascolini
Afterword. Historical notes on ISODARCO
Carlo Schaerf
Selected Bibliography
Index
