No Alternative
No Alternative NUCLEAR WEAPONS: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL Autumn Press (1318 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146). 223 pp. $12.95 hardcover. $7.95 paperback. In 1978 the U.N. General...
...The facts collected here are an eloquent indictment of the arms race and an affirmation of nuclear physicist Niels Bohr's warning that nuclear weapons are "a perpetual menace to human society...
...Ironically, the five nuclear powers declined to participate...
...The panel included diplomats, scientists, and arms control advisers from Ghana, Algeria, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Pakistan, Argentina, Australia, Sweden, Romania, and India...
...General Assembly asked the Secretary-General to make, with the aid of experts, a thorough study of nuclear weapons...
...This sobering study covers information on present nuclear arsenals, the trends in the technological development of nuclear weapons systems, the effects of nuclear war, and the pursuit of nuclear disarmament...
...Today's arsenals, the report cautions, "contain weapons that are a thousand times more powerful" than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...Even if the road to nuclear disarmament is a long and difficult one, there is no alternative," the report concludes...
...A recurring theme throughout the report is the importance, for the survival of the human race, of international interdependence...
Vol. 45 • November 1981 • No. 11
