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The Last Chance: Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control
The Last Chance: Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control
By William Epstein
Free Press, 1976, 341 pp

An exhaustive, illuminating and often passionate examination of the nuclear proliferation problem. The author was a senior official at the United Nations dealing with arms control and disarmament questions for 25 years; this enables him to articulate especially well the perspectives of the Third World non-nuclear states.

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