Thinking about Nuclear Weapons: Analyses and Prescriptions

Editor(s): Fred Holroyd

Croom Helm in association with the Open University, London, 1985, pp. 409

Covers a range of perspectives on nuclear weapons. Includes influential McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara, Gerard Smith, Nuclear weapons and the Atlantic Alliance, 1982 , pp. 753-766 , arguing that NATO should not use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack. Also includes section from the Alternative Defence Commission report on ‘The rationale for rejecting nuclear weapons’, as well as an extract from Edward P. Thompson’s 1980 pamphlet Protest and Survive (see below).