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Initial Conclusion: By all means, read Schelling and Halperin. Nearly every reader of this review will find Hadley totally worthless.
The terse study by Schelling and Halperin, both members of the University's Center for International Affairs, attempts to explicitly define the term "arms control." Superbly concise, it presents both the prospects and problems in a cool, logical style understandable to any reader. It avoids both the massiveness and the...
Also skeptical of disarmament, Schelling pictured arms control as the "diversion of the arms race away from nuclear weapons toward non-nuclear forces and submarines." Increased dependence on submarines, he pointed out would effect a more stable deterence because the amount of strategic forces which could be destroyed by one...
Schelling said that future arms control will depend "more on understanding and restraint than on formal negotiations." He cited the Russian conduct during the U-2 incident as an example of this kind of restraint.
Socialist leader Norman Thomas criticized those who, like Schelling, believe that annihilation by nuclear war is not an inevitable consequence of arms control.