CONTENTS

Cover

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Foreword by William Perry

Introduction

Catherine McArdle Kelleher

HOW WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE

1   The Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

David Holloway

2   Advocacy for Nuclear Disarmament: A Global Revival?

Randy Rydell

3   Is a World without Nuclear Weapons Attainable? Comparative Perspectives on Goals and Prospects

Götz Neuneck

PAST DECISIONS, FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

4   The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal and Zero: Sizing and Planning for Use—Past, Present, and Future

Lynn Eden

5   Nuclear Deterrence, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation

Alexei G. Arbatov

6   British Thinking on Nuclear Weapons

Ian Anthony

7. France’s Nuclear Stance: Independence, Unilateralism, and Adaptation

Venance Journé

8   Challenges for U.S.-China Strategic Stability in the Obama Administration

Jeffrey Lewis

REGIONAL CONSEQUENCES

9   Europe, Nuclear Disarmament, and Nonproliferation: What Next?

Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova

10 Israel’s Nuclear Future: Iran, Opacity, and the Vision of Global Zero

Avner Cohen

11 Iran Policy on the Way to Zero

Jill Marie Lewis with Laicie Olson

12 India and Nuclear Zero

Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu

ISSUES AND CONSTRAINTS

13 Fissile Materials and Disarmament: Long-term Goals, Short-term Steps

James M. Acton

14 Nuclear Zero at the Weapons Laboratories

Judith Reppy

15 Is the Civil Nuclear Industry Relevant to Nuclear Disarmament?

Marco Deandreis and Simon Moore

16 Nuclear Abolition or Nuclear Umbrella? Choices and Contradictions in U.S. Proposals

Matthew Evangelista

17 American Conventional Superiority: The Balancing Act

Dennis M. Gormley

WHAT NEXT?

18 Steps toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

David Holloway

19 Practical Steps toward Nuclear Zero

Peter Dombrowski

Contributor Biographies

Index