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Reason enough to hope : America and the world of the twenty-first century / Philip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 210 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585021287
  • 9780585021287
  • 0262280221
  • 9780262280228
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reason enough to hope.DDC classification:
  • 327.1/745 21
LOC classification:
  • JZ5675 .M67 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A personal preface : Blue sky, partly cloudy -- Acknowledgments -- The uniqueness of our time -- Demography in times of peace and war -- U.S. nuclear forces for the next century -- Mending the leaks in nonproliferation -- Common security -- On civilian intervention -- How much is enough : The military after 2000 -- Everyone wins -- Improving the quality of life -- The limits of the practical -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: In this "blue-sky" effort to rethink humanity's basic challenges, Philip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis - both eminent scientists with deep expertise in arms control issues - sketch the broad outlines for a global approach to the problems of security and development. Their goal is to set priorities for feasible action, and their focus is threefold: war and particularly the continuing dangers of nuclear weapons, population and the promotion of increased levels of human well-being, and the threat of environmental degradation. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206) and index.

A personal preface : Blue sky, partly cloudy -- Acknowledgments -- The uniqueness of our time -- Demography in times of peace and war -- U.S. nuclear forces for the next century -- Mending the leaks in nonproliferation -- Common security -- On civilian intervention -- How much is enough : The military after 2000 -- Everyone wins -- Improving the quality of life -- The limits of the practical -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In this "blue-sky" effort to rethink humanity's basic challenges, Philip Morrison and Kosta Tsipis - both eminent scientists with deep expertise in arms control issues - sketch the broad outlines for a global approach to the problems of security and development. Their goal is to set priorities for feasible action, and their focus is threefold: war and particularly the continuing dangers of nuclear weapons, population and the promotion of increased levels of human well-being, and the threat of environmental degradation. -- Provided by publisher.

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English.

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