Abstract
Will we really be able to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons through arms control? The lustre of the unattainable has dimmed as the goal has come within our grasp; not only are voices heard in the United States on the undesirability of deep cuts, but the current declaratory positions of the governments of France, Great Britain, and China give little encouragement to the United States and the Soviet Union in negotiating further reductions in their own stocks of nuclear weapons.
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Garwin, R. (1989). Deep Cuts in Strategic Nuclear Weapons: Possible? Desirable?. In: Rotblat, J., Goldanskii, V.I. (eds) Global Problems and Common Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75072-4_1
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