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Author Dellums, Ronald V., 1935-2018.

Title Defense sense : the search for a rational military policy / Ronald V. Dellums, with R.H. (Max) Miller and H. Lee Halterman ; edited by Patrick O'Heffernan.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Ballinger Pub. Co., ©1983.

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 Axe Special Collections Eucalyptus  355.033573 D381d 1983    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Note Includes testimony from congressional hearings conducted by Ronald V. Dellums.
Contents Introduction -- Prologue : sanity and survival in the nuclear age -- Weapons for what purposes? America's strategic arsenal / Robert C. Aldridge -- Assumptions behind U.S. strategic policy / Dr. Herbert Scoville, Jr. -- The need for arms control / Paul Warnke -- What is strength in the nuclear age? / Richard J. Barnet -- Foreign policy, national security and the military budget : arms for what ends? U.S. foreign policy : imperialism and military power / Marcus G. Raskin -- National security and the Reagan arms buildup / J. William Fulbright -- Foreign policy assumptions of the Reagan military budget / Walter LaFeber -- Opening the floodgates : "arms diplomacy" of the Reagan administration / Michael T. Klare -- Administration misrepresentations of Soviet military spending / Franklyn Holzman -- Reagan's military budget : where are we going? Preparing to fight a nuclear war : the Reagan arms budget / Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque -- Reagan's policy can't work / Jeremy J. Stone -- Cutting the defense budget / Earl C. Ravenal -- A lean, mean military budget / Paul F. Walker -- Military spending and the domestic economy : what's left to defend? Military spending and domestic bankruptcy / Seymour Melman -- The "Iron Triangle" and the American economy / Gordon Adams -- The empty pork barrel / Marion Anderson -- The military budget and American labor / William Winpisinger -- Economic conversion : retooling for peace / David Cortright -- Moral implications of the military budget : a citizen responsibility? The immorality of the arms race / Bishop John T. Walker -- "The cross of iron" / Archbishop John R. Quinn -- Duplicity and delusion in American foreign policy / Bishop Walter F. Sullivan -- Education, values and the arms race / Terry Herndon -- The medical consequences of nuclear war / H. Jack Geiger -- Democracy in military policy : leading the "leaders" / Earl Molander -- "We are all responsible" / Philip Berrigan -- Where does this lead us? True peace is more than the absence of war -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index.
Subject United States -- Military policy.
Military policy. (OCoLC)fst01021386
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Miller, Richard H. (Richard Hayes)
Halterman, H. Lee.
O'Heffernan, Patrick.
ISBN 0884109429
9780884109426
0884109577 (pbk.)
9780884109570 (pbk.)

 
    
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