A Nuclear-weapon-free world : desirable?, feasible? / edited by Joseph Rotblat, Jack Steinberger, and Bhalchandra Udgaonkar ; executive editor, Frank Blackaby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Past attempts to abolish nuclear weapons / Joseph Rotblat -- Nuclear weapons after the Cold War / Carl Kaysen, Robert McNamara, and George Rathjens -- A nuclear-weapon-free world : is it desirable? is it necessary? / Jack Steinberger, Essam Galal, and Mikhail Milstein -- Technological problems of verification / Theodore Taylor -- The breakout problem / Marvin Miller and Jack Ruina -- Societal verification / Joseph Rotblat -- A NWFW regime : treaty for the abolition of nuclear weapons / Maxwell Bruce, Horst Fischer, and Thomas Mensah -- Verification and enforcement in a NWFW / James Leonard, Martin Kaplan, and Benjamin Sanders -- International security in a NWFW / Shalheveth Freier -- Making nuclear weapons illegal / Jozef Goldblat.

Nuclear weapons for the United Nations? / Richard Garwin -- An international nuclear security force / Vitalii Goldanskii and Stanislav Rodionov -- An asymptotic approach to a NWFW / Francesco Calogero -- Approaches towards a nuclear-weapon-free world / Bhalchandra Udgaonkar, Raja Mohan, and Maj Britt Theorin.