The Conquest Of War

Harry B. Hollins, Averill L. Powers, Mark Sommer

Introduction -- Conquering War: The Next Step in Human Evolution -- The United Nations and Six Alternative Approaches to Global Security -- Introduction to Part One: Beyond the Balance of Power -- The United Nations: A Tool Neglected -- A World Peacekeeping Federation: The Clark-Sohn Plan -- Minimum Deterrence: How Little Is Enough? -- Qualitative Disarmament: Eliminating the War-making Capability of Nations -- Nonprovocative Defense: Protection Without Threat -- Civilian-based Defense: The Strength of Bare Hands and Stubbornness -- Strategic Defense: Armor or Apocalypse? -- Keeping the Peace: Issues Common to All Approaches -- Verification: Substituting Information for Weapons -- Bringing Law to Bear on Governments -- Economic Conversion: Making Peace More Profitable than War -- Prospects for Transformation -- Toward a Common Security System: A Proposal -- The Peril and the Promise -- Appendix