How to Avoid a Nuclear War

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• OPENING LECTURE

• ARMS REDUCTION AND BALANCE

  • Disincentives to nuclear proliferation

  • Relaunching the drive for disarmament: a Canadian perspective on the vital importance of reducing strategic nuclear armaments

  • De facto non-proliferation principles

• DEFENSE

  • Swiss civil defense - can it be exported?

  • On the question of the nuclear shield

• THE FUTURE OF ARMS DEVELOPMENTS AND OF ARMS CONTROL

  • A NATO policy of strengthening conventional weapons and forces

  • How to avoid nuclear war

  • Preventing proliferation

  • Nuclear issues in Europe

• HOW TO AVOID A NUCLEAR WAR

  • The unacceptability of a first-use-based policy for the European NATO-partners

  • The prevention of nuclear war

  • La sécurité par la négociation en matière d'armement nucléaire

  • How to avoid a nuclear war - a military point of view

  • Global problems

  • The scientists in front of the perspective of the nuclear holocaust

  • Openness: A contribution from scientists

  • How to avoid nuclear war

  • Mutual survival versus mutual destruction

• THE IMPLICATIONS OF A NUCLEAR WAR

  • Concerning the implications of large-scale nuclear war: the actual fate of the earth

• SPECIAL LECTURE

  • Kapitza's life as I know it

• GENERAL DISCUSSION

• CONCLUSIONS

  • A. ZICHICHI

  • E. TELLER

  • P.L. KAPITZA

• MESSAGES

  • Message by His Holiness John Paul II

  • Message by the President of the United States of America, Mr. Ronald Reagan

  • Messaggio del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana, On. Sandro Pertini

• ERICE STATEMENT ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND PEACE

• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS