No-First-Use

Frank Blackaby, Jozef Goldblat, Sverre Lodgaard Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Based in Stockholm, SIPRI is regularly ranked among the most respected think tanks worldwide.

Preface. Part 1: No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons – An Overview No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons - An Overview Frank Blackaby, Jozef Goldblat and Sverre Lodgaard Part 2: No-First-Use – Main Arguments for and Against Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard Smith. Nuclear Weapons and the Preservation of Peace Karl Kaiser, Georg Leber, Alois Mertes and Franz-Jozef Schulze Part 3: Discussion Papers 1. The Necessity, Preconditions and Consequences of a No-First-Use Policy Horst Afheldt 2. The No-First-Use Debate and the Theory of Thresholds Lawrence Freedman 3. Alternatives to the First Use of Nuclear Weapons Daniel Frei 4. No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons Shalheveth Freier 5. The Atom Serves But One Master Pierre M. Gallois 6. No-First-Use – A First Step in Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Alfonso García Robles 7. Views on a Commitment to No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons Cai Mengsun 8. On the Question of Non-Resort to the First Use of Nuclear Weapons Mikhail A. Milshtein 9. Should the United States Commit Itself to Not Being the First to Use Nuclear Weapons? Paul C. Warnke. Appendix I. Declarations on Security Assurances to Non-Nuclear Weapon States made by the Five Nuclear Weapon States. Appendix II. Additional Protocol II to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (Treaty of Tlatelolco). Appendix III. References to the No-First-Use of Nuclear Weapons Made in the General Debate of UNSSOD II. Appendix IV. UN Resolutions Adopted in 1983. Index.