
Accidental Nuclear War
Modifications to superpower arsenals and to procedures for handling them could substantially reduce the risk of unintended Armageddon
Modifications to superpower arsenals and to procedures for handling them could substantially reduce the risk of unintended Armageddon
President Reagan's "Star Wars" program seems unilkely ever to protect the entire nation against a nuclear attack. It would nonetheless trigger a major expansion of the arms race
The security of all nations would be enhanced if the U.S. and its allies were to adopt a military strategy that did not rely on nuclear arms to counter a non-nuclear attack
The way ultrahigh-energy electrons are scattered by protons and neutrons suggests that these "elementary" nuclear particles have a complex internal structure consisting of pointlike entities...
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