Living with Nuclear Weapons

Albert Carnesale

Paul Doty

Stanley Hoffmann

Samuel P. Huntington

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Scott D. Sagan

Derek Bok

    At the request of the President of Harvard University, six Harvard scholars have joined forces to write a book that lays out the facts about nuclear weapons for all concerned citizens who want to think through the nuclear dilemma for themselves. Living with Nuclear Weapons is written by specialists for the general reader. It conveys crucial information clearly, concisely, and without technical jargon.

    Living with Nuclear Weapons presents all sides of the nuclear debate while explaining what everyone needs to know to develop informed and reasoned opinions about the issues. Among the specifics are a history of nuclear weaponry; an examination of current nuclear arsenals; scenarios of how a nuclear war might begin; a discussion of what can be done to promote arms control and disarmament; a study of the hazards of nuclear proliferation; an analysis of various nuclear strategies; and an explanation of how public opinion can influence policy on the nuclear arms question.

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Albert Carnesale, Academic Dean, Kennedy School of Government; served on the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (1970-1972) and as the head of the U. S. delegation to the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (1978-1980).

Paul Doty, Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government; was involved in the Manhattan Project and was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

Stanley Hoffmann is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, at Harvard University

Samuel P. Huntington is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, and the author of Political Order in Changing Societies.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., is Dean of the Faculty and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Scott D. Sagan, Teaching Fellow, History Department, Harvard; served as Staff Director of the Project.

Derek C. Bok is President Emeritus and Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University.