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Optimists and pessimists about nuclear arms

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FreedmanLawrence, Atlas of Global Strategy: War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, Macmillan, 1985, 192 pp. £14.95.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Dan Keohane
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Extract

Since the end of the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union have engaged in an intense and often deeply hostile contest for predominance in the international system. The dedication by each superpower of its most valued technological, engineering and economic resources first to acquiring and thereafter to ceaselessly enhancing a comprehensive inventory of nuclear arms, is an especially prominent and important manifestation of USA-USSR rivalry.

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Review Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 155 - 161
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1987

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References

1. Holloway, David, The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (Yale University Press, 1984)Google Scholar in Thinking About Nuclear Weapons, p. 71.

2. Living with Nuclear Weapons (Harvard University Press, 1983)Google ScholarPubMed, chapter 9, ‘Arms Control and Disarmament: What Can and Can't Be Done’.