Review: Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Fallacies, Nuclear Past, Nuclear Present
| Author | George Ignatieff |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070208604100214 |
| Published date | 01 June 1986 |
| Date | 01 June 1986 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
470
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Probably,
the
explanation
of
current
Chinese
'professionalism'
is
linked
to
'pragmatism,'
although
the
latter
is
formally
rejected
insofar
as
it
implies
the
Western
conception
of
the
'end
of
ideology';
but
the
intellectual
origins
of
the
practical
attempts
of
the
Chinese
at
corre-
lating
ends
and
means
in
foreign
policy
are
certainly
worthy
of
further
analysis.
In
the
meantime
the
reader
will
want
to
pour
over
the
details
of
the
structural
process
of
decision-taking
and
relish
the
newly
re-
leased
information
provided
in
Professor
Barnett's
latest
contribution
to
the
field.
Ronald
C.
Keith/University
of
Calgary
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
NUCLEAR
FALLACIES
How
we
have
been
misguided
since
Hiroshima
Robert
W.
Malcolmson
Toronto:
McGill-Queen's
University
Press,
1985,
xii,
152pp, $20.00
cloth,
$8.95
paper
NUCLEAR
PAST,
NUCLEAR
PRESENT
Hiroshima,
Nagasaki,
and
contemporary strategy
Ian
Clark
Boulder co:
Westview
Press,
1985,
x, 146pp,
US$15.00
At
a
time
when
technological
changes
tend
to
erode
the
element
of
human
responsibility
and
control
in
preparations for
nuclear
war
fighting
or
arms control, these
two
books
are
timely
studies
of
how
we
arrived
at
this
dangerous
abdication
of
control
over weapons
that
threaten
to
precipitate
mutual
suicide.
The
revision
of
history
is
a
never-ending
process,
in
response
to
new
information
or
some
new
perspectives.
The
importance
of
Ian
Clark's book,
Nuclear
Past,
Nuclear
Present,
is
that
it
examines
the
evidence
from
the
standpoint
of
what
the experience
of
dropping
the
bombs
on Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki teaches
us
about
contemporary
strategy,
especially
about
political
control.
His
study
leads
him
to con-
clude:
'We
should
disabuse
ourselves
that
the
first
use
of
atomic weap-
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