Volume 29, Number 12 · July 15, 1982
How Not to Think About Nuclear War
By Theodore H. Draper
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
"Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance,"
by McGeorge Bundy, by George F. Kennan, by Robert S. McNamara, by Gerard Smith
Foreign Affairs
The Fate of the Earth
by Jonathan Schell
Knopf, 244 pp., $11.95
Nuclear Illusion and Reality
by Solly Zuckerman
Viking, 154 pp., $10.95
Suddenly, 'no-first-use' and 'the freeze' have become the talismanic slogans of the antinuclear war movement. They have been around for years, but they have recently gained renewed urgency both by having been taken up by outstanding proponents and by increasing popular support. They are not similar, and the freeze may be left for later in another connection.
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