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. "Front Matter." The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1
The Current Situation and the Reasons for Further Change
Nuclear Deterrence Past and Future
3
A Two-Part Program of Change
4
Building a Regime of Progressive Constraints
6
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?
8
WHY CHANGE U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY?
11
The Problem and the Prospects in Summary
12
Nuclear Weapon Dilemmas and Dynamics
23
The Case for Post-Cold War Reductions and Transformations
26
Orientation and a Caution
30
2
CURRENT U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY
33
The U.S.-Russian Interaction
The Other Nuclear Weapons States: China, France, and the United Kingdom
46
Nuclear Weapons Policy and Nonproliferation
47
Conclusion
56
A REGIME OF PROGRESSIVE CONSTRAINTS
58
An Immediate Step: To 2,000 Deployed Strategic Warheads
59
Further Transformation of the U.S.-Russian Interaction
60
Nuclear Reductions and Nonproliferation
66
Nuclear Force Reductions: How Low Can We Go?
75
