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Facts and Morals in the Arms Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Robert A. Levine
Robert A. Levine
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Harvard University
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Of the several public dialogues currently being carried on in the United States, the controversy over military strength and disarmament may be both the most important and the most confusing. Its importance is obvious; it is an interesting commentary on the vital nature of armament-disarmament policy that the literature in the field is burgeoning almost as fast as the literature about the Civil War on its 100th anniversary. But, if the importance is obvious, the confusion is becoming equally so.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , January 1962 , pp. 239 - 258
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1962

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