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No-First-Use
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN 0-85066-260-5
151 pp.
1984
The debate on no-first-use of nuclear weapons has been conducted on a number of fronts. First use of nuclear weapons has come under challenge from many different directions: from church synods, from international lawyers, in debates at the United Nations, and from strategic thinkers.
This book takes stock for and against no-first-use and examines the political, military and arms control implications of such a commitment.
Contents
Part I. No-first-use of nuclear weapons - an overview
No-first-use of nuclear weapons - an overview
Frank Blackaby, Jozef Goldblat and Sverre Lodgaard
Part II. No-first-use - main arguments for and against
Nuclear weapons and the Atlantic Alliance
McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard Smith
Nuclear weapons and the preservation of peace
Karl Kaiser, Georg Leber, Alois Mertes and Franz-Jozef Schulze
Part III. Discussion papers
1. The necessity, preconditions and consequences of a no-first-use policy
Horst Afheldt
2. The no-first-use debate and the theory of thresholds
Lawrence Freedman
3. Alternatives to the first use of nuclear weapons
Daniel Frei
4. No-first-use of nuclear weapons
Shalheveth Freier
5. The atom serves but one master
Pierre M. Gallois
6. No-first-use - a first step in eliminating nuclear weapons
Alfonso García Robles
7. Views on a commitment to no-first-use of nuclear weapons
Cai Mengsun
8. On the question of non-resort to the first use of nuclear weapons
Mikhail A. Milshtein
9. Should the United States commit itself to not being the first to use nuclear weapons?
Paul C. Warnke
Appendix I. Declarations on security assurances to non-nuclear weapon states made by the five nuclear weapon states
Appendix II. Additional Protocol II to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco)
Appendix III. References to the no-first-use of nuclear weapons made in the general debate of UNSSOD II
Appendix IV. UN Resolutions adopted in 1983