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

by Turner,Stansfield

• ISBN13: 9780813366777
• ISBN10: 0813366771
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-06-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 planstrategic escrowthat 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.

Author Biography

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	xi
Acronyms	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
Part One The Problem
The Spell Cast by Weapons of Mass Destruction	7	(24)
Part Two The Theory
Points of Non-recovery	31	(20)
Points of Self-Deterrence	51	(14)
Controlled Response	65	(16)
Part Three The Solution
Strategic Escrow	81	(8)
No First-Use	89	(6)
Defenses	95	(18)
Global Management	113	(18)
Reshaping Decisionmaking	131	(10)
The Sine Qua Non---Citizen Support	141	(8)
Appendix A: Lethality of Nuclear Weapons	149	(10)
Appendix B: Excerpts from ``Nuclear Crash---The U.S. Economy After Small Nuclear Attacks,''	159	(10)
M. Anjali Sastry
Joseph J. Romm
Kosta Tsipis
Appendix C: Calculation of Russian Forces Surviving a U.S. Preemptive Attack	169	(6)
Notes	175	(6)
Index	181