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Global Problems and Common Security :

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3642750729

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3642750745

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9783642750724

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9783642750748

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Global Problems and Common Security :

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[Book]

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Annals of Pugwash 1988

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Josef Rotblat, Vitalii I. Goldanskii.

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Berlin, Heidelberg

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Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1989

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(XI, 267 pages 19 illustrations)

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I Strategic Nuclear Disarmament --; Deep Cuts in Strategic Nuclear Weapons: Possible? Desirable? --; A Comprehensive Test-Ban Verification Regime: Implications of Cooperative Measures in INF and START --; Soviet-American Collaboration on Seismic Monitoring --; Threshold Limits on Anti-Missile Systems --; II Prevention of Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons --; Preventing Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Hopes and Realities --; Prevention of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation --; Revision of the Non-Proliferation Treaty --; A Strategy to Stop the Spread of Fissile Material --; III Nuclear and Conventional Forces --; The Links Between Nuclear and Conventional Forces --; Nuclear Forces and Their Relation to Conventional Armaments --; Restructuring Conventional Forces in Defensive Modes --; Interaction Between Nuclear and Conventional Arms-Control Measures (Report on a Pugwash Workshop, June 1988) --; IV Prevention of Chemical Warfare --; International Machinery for Monitoring a Chemical Weapons Convention --; Adequacy Versus Feasibility in the Scope of the Projected Chemical Weapons Convention --; Chemical Disarmament: Reliable and Efficient Control --; V European Security --; Towards Conventional Stability in Europe --; Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Europe --; Obstacles to Confidence-Building: How Can They Be Overcome? --; Prospects of Satellite Verification in Europe --; Disengagement in Europe (Pugwash Symposium, April 1988) --; VI Military Research and Development --; Roles of Technological Innovation in the Arms Race --; Controlling Military Research and Development --; Conversion from Military Research and Development: Economic Aspects --; VII Global Environmental Problems --; The Environmental Dimensions of National Security --; Environmental Problems: A Determining Factor of Future Politics --; Global Environmental Issues and International Politics --; International Cooperation for Survival --; VIII Alleviating Underdevelopment --; Disarmament for Development --; Contributions of Science and Technology to the Alleviation of Underdevelopment --; Food, Population and Conflict in Africa --; The Role of Health Care in Alleviating Underdevelopment --; Global Problems and Common Security Statement of the Pugwash Council --; Dagomys Declaration of the Pugwash Council 'Ensuring the Survival of Civilization' --; Acronyms --; Notes on the Contributors.

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The INF-Treaty, brought about largely by the "new way of thinking" of Mikhail Gorbachev, resulted in a welcome relaxation of tension between East and West, but has not eliminated the danger of a nuclear war. The Treaty has removed only a few per cent of the nuclear arsenals, and this is already being compensated by new improved weapons. The danger of an accidental nuclear war looms as large as ever. How to reduce this danger? How to deal the menace of chemical and conventional weapons? How to transfer the enormous resources spent on mililitary arms to the solution of other issues threatening civilization, notably the degradation of of the environment and the plight of poor nations? These questions are posed and solutions are suggested in this volume by 30 scholars and experts from 11 countries, brought together in a Pugwash Conference. The theme "Global Problems and Common Security" epitomizes the new approach to resolving the most important issues facing mankind at the present time.

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edited by Josef Rotblat, Vitalii I. Goldanskii.

Josef Rotblat

Vitalii I Goldanskii

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