Beyond The Hotline

Today's efforts to prevent nuclear war are focused mainly on arms and arms control, but William Ury, head of Harvard's Nuclear Negotiation Project, points out in Beyond the Hotline that there is an urgent need for something more—“crisis control.” This commonsense approach to preventing unintentional nuclear war focuses on the human factor—on preventing blunders, panic, miscalculation and breakdowns in communication born of extraordinary threats and pressure for instant reaction.