Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART I A nuclear-weapons-free world: desirable? Feasible?; 1 A world without nuclear weapons?; 2 Making NWFW attractive, stable and sustainable; 3 Icon off the mark: Schelling's nuclear disarmament scare; 4 Towards a rigorous comparison of a pre-nuclear and a post-nuclear world; PART II The requirements and paths to stable nuclear zero; 5 Out of the box: nuclear disarmament and cultural change; 6 Verification requirements; 7 Missile defence as an alternative to nuclear deterrence?; 8 Nuclear disarmament: a Chinese view.
  • 9 Stable at zero: deterrence and verificationPART III Summary and conclusions; 10 The vision and its implications for disarmament policy; Index.