Weapons and Hope

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Explores ways to live and survive in a nuclear age and examines the key areas of public morality, weapons technology, and international policy

Author(s): Freeman Dyson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Harpercollins
Year: 1984

Language: English
Commentary: No attempt at file size reduction
Pages: 340
Tags: Arms Race; Nuclear Weapons

Preface
PART I. QUESTIONS
Agenda for a Meeting of Minds
The Question of Survival
PART II. TOOLS
Paradoxes of the Arms Race
David and Goliath
Technical Follies
Star Wars
The ABM Problem
Shelters
PART III. PEOPLE
Amateurs at War
Education of a Warrior
Scientists and Poets
The Scholar-Soldier
Generals
Diplomats
Russians
Pacifists
PART IV. CONCEPTS
The Importance of Being Stuck
The Quest for Concept
Assured Destruction
Nuclear War Fighting
Unilateral Disarmament
The Middle Way
The Fateful Choice
Tragedy Is Not Our Business
Bibliographical Notes
Index