This is the first book to provide a realistic, non-emotional and non-partisan framework of hard information for concerned people to make their own judgements about nuclear issues. This book is for interested laymen. It will also be used by ongressmen, scholars, and policymakers. It is the first book that puts all sides of the nuclar debate into persepective. Includes an index.

(Key Words: War, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Wars, Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Military, Stanley Hoffmann, Samuel P. Huntington, Joseph S. Nye, Scott D. Sagan, Derek Bok, World War I. World War II, Technology, Targeting policy, Soviet Union, Reagan Administration, Paistan, NATO, ICBMs, Europe, France, Fear, Peace, Cuban Missile Crisis).