Volume 4, Number 2 · February 25, 1965
Atomic Wedlock
By Ronald Steel
The Great Debate: Theories of Nuclear Strategy
by Raymond Aron, translated by Ernst Pawel
Doubleday, 265 pp., $4.95
Some half-dozen years ago in his book On War Raymond Aron wrote: 'The atom bomb, developed at a moment when two states were overwhelmingly more powerful than all others, has reinforced the bipolar structure of the diplomatic field. On the other hand, once the bomb is at the disposal of every state, it will contribute to the dissolution of the structure.' As the coda of the cold war alliances this is eminently concise and irrefutable.
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