NATO and Metaphors: The Nuclear Threshold

Ever since the development of nuclear weapons their employment has been a major concern of military planners. Fortunately, we have had no practical experience with their use. However, in the event of war in Western Europe a decision determining the threshold for their employment would be critical If not decisive

Myopic Visions of The Arms Race: The Immortality of Metaphors

Misunderstanding and misapplication of some enduring arms race metaphors obscure distinctions that should be made and can lead to conclusions not supported by logic

Terrorist, Atoms and The Future: Understanding the Threat

The liberal governments of this world have increasingly come to find them• selves attempting to cope with the extraordinary explosion of demands­ both legitimate and illegitimate-that defines contemporary politics, For most of those who object to this or that policy, dissent takes constitutionally-or at least tacitly-acceptable forms. How­ever, for a small segment of those rejecting not a policy or a particular government, but rather a regime and established legality 3 itself, the lan­guage of dissent is violence and the blunt instrument for its expression is all too often terrorism.