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Article: An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security After the Cold War.(Review)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security After the Cold War By Janne Nolan Brookings Institution Press, 1999 139 pages; $14.95
Janne Nolan's illuminating book does much to explain why, a decade after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the United States continues to maintain a stockpile of 10,000 nuclear weapons and resists efforts to move beyond Cold War thinking regarding nuclear weapons policy.
Nolan, director of international programs at the Century Foundation, relies heavily on interviews with senior and mid-level military and civilian officials to explore the forces that shape U.S. nuclear policy. She seeks to understand why a ...