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Also named by Coolidge were Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics, who has done extensive work on applying game theory and decision theory to the probability of nuclear war; Robert Humphrey Marden '49, lecturer on Education and former consultant to the Massachusetts Civil Defense Department; and Benjamin G. Ferris, Jr...
Schelling and Halperin's Strategy and Arms Control (discussed at length by Ken Porter) was a good selection for a book review. The book's imaginative treatment of a complex and poorly understood subject drew huzzas when it came out last year. It continues to deserve all the publicity it...
Schelling and Halperin make the novel point that inspection has been vastly overemphasized. They argue that arms control agreements should be based on mutual interest, and an interest strong enough that both sides should want to convince the opponent it is in fact complying with the agreement. Each side should...
Hadley's book, by injecting concreteness through its constant mention of Minutemen and Polarises, may be fine for persons completely uninformed about strategy. But this very timeliness now will create an early obsolescence, while Schelling and Halperin manage to treat arms control as a more theoretical notion.
If the Twentieth Century Fund believed in advertising the books it publishes, we might seo this ad: "To be fully informed, read Schelling and Halperin." However true this statement is, the book has received no publicity to speak of. Thus the public will read Hadley; Harvard types should follow the...