Caging the Genies: A Workable Solution for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons

189, wraps, illus., footnotes, notes, index. Inscribed by the author to reporter Lars Erik Nelson. The Cold War may be over, but tens of thousands of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction are still held by Russia, the UnitedStates, and other world powers. Arguing that the time has come to dispense with incremental approaches to arms control, Admiral Stansfield Turner, formerly the head of the CIA and an experienced senior military commander, proposes a practical yet safe plan that would move the world into a new and secure millennium. This paperback edition has been updated to consider the implications of such a build-down if applied to non-nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Specifically, Admiral Turner details how a plan for weapons reduction could be carried out for biological and chemical weapons and what tactical and strategic differences exist between de-escalation of nuclear and non-nuclear weapons.