Caging The Genies: A Workable Solution For Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Weapons / Edition 1

by Stansfield Turner

Overview

The Cold War may be over, but you wouldn't know it from the tens of thousands of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction still held by Russia, the United States, and other world powers. Arguing that the time has come to dispense with incremental approaches to arms control, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the former head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander, proposes a practical yet safe plan—strategic escrow—that would move the world into a new and secure millennium. The paperback edition of this widely acclaimed work has been updated to consider the implications of such a build-down if applied to non-nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Specifically, Admiral Turner details how a plan for weapons reduction could be carried out for biological and chemical weapons and what tactical and strategic differences exist between de-escalation of nuclear and non-nuclear weapons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813366777
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	06/04/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1320L (what's this?)

About the Author

Stansfield Turner is the former head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander. He is the author of Secrecy and Democracy and Terrorism and Democracy.

Table of Contents

* Acknowledgments * Acronyms * Introduction Part One: The Problem * 1. The Spell Cast by Weapons of Mass Destruction Part Two: The Theory * 2. Points of Non-recovery * 3. Points of Self-Deterrence * 4. Controlled Response Part Three: The Solution * 5. Strategic Escrow * 6. No First-Use * 7. Defenses * 8. Global Management * 9. Reshaping Decisionmaking * 10. The Sine Qua Non: Citizen Support * Appendix A: Lethality of Nuclear Weapons * Appendix B: Excerpts from "Nuclear Crash:The U.S. Economy After Small Nuclear Attacks," M. Anjali Sastry, Joseph J. Romm, and Kosta Tsipis * Appendix C: Calculation of Russian Forces Surviving a U.S. Preemptive Attack * Notes * Index

What People are Saying About This

Jimmy Carter

The end of the Cold War may have freed the world from the immediate threat of a nuclear war, but thousands of nuclear weapons remain, many still on alert, aimed at specific targets in Russia and in the United States. Policymakers and the public should read this book, and act.

Editorial Reviews

[The book] is more than an arms-control proposal. It is a readable primer on nuclear weapons and strategy.

NY Times Book Review

Provocative.... As a remedy for troubled efforts to shrink nuclear weapons stockpiles, the former CIA chief offers a blend of utopian wishes and pragmatic policy suggestions.... Turner's book is more than an arms-control proposal, however. It is a readable primer on nuclear weapons and strategy.

BusinessWeek

His views on nuclear strategy command attention and show his innovation, concern, and insightfulness.... highly readable and appealling.

Choice Magazine

Turner (former director of the Central Intelligence Agency) argues that the U.S. Government can and should take the lead in a world-wide disarmament strategy. The strategy would limit eight nuclear powers to a limit of 200 warheads that would be kept separate from their launchers in internationally supervised storage. Strangely, Turner views one of the major obstacles to his plan as the inability of the government to convince a reluctant population to remove the threat of mass destruction from over their heads. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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