Contemporary nuclear debates : missile defense, arms control, and arms races in the twenty-first century / edited by Alexander T.J. Lennon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : modernizing strategic nuclear debates / Alexander T.J. Lennon -- part I.U.S. national missile defense : when and how? The politics : how did we get here? / Michael Nacht -- A call to deploy / Stephen J. Hadley -- A defense that will not defend / Richard L. Garwin -- Toward missile defenses from the sea / Hans Binnendijk and George Stewart -- Would space-based defenses improve security? / Kevin McLaughlin -- Missile defense after the ABM Treaty / James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O'Hanlon -- part II. Global perceptions of missile defense. Brussels's burden / François Heisbourg -- Tokyo's temperance / Yoichi Funabashi -- New Delhi's dilemma / Brahma Chellaney -- Israel's imperative / Efraim Karsh -- Pyongyang's pressure / Scott Snyder -- Tehran's tocsin / Anoushiravan Ehteshami -- Beijing's bind / Michael McDevitt -- Moscow's matrix / Alexander A. Pikayev -- part III. Do arms races matter anymore? Return of the nuclear debate / Leon Fuerth -- Action-reaction metaphysics and negligence / Keith B. Payne -- Do arms races matter? / Bruno Tertrais -- The new arms race / Leon Sloss -- part IV. Is arms control dead? Is arms control dead? / Harold Brown -- The demise of arms control? / James Schlesinger -- The road ahead / Brad Roberts -- Strengthening arms control / Thomas Graham -- An inherent lesson / Stephen Cambone -- Arms control in a new era / Rose Gottemoeller -- Renovation through reassurance / John Steinbruner.