Preface: The Contemporary Debate about Nuclear Weapons, John Baylis and Robert ONeill
1. To Confuse Ourselves: Nuclear Fallacies, Colin Gray
2. The Unavoidable Importance of Nuclear Weapons, George Quester
3. Aspiration, Realism and Practical Policy, Michael Quinlan
4. Eliminators, Marginalists and the Politics of Disarmament, Lawrence Freedman
5. Nuclear Weapons, Prudence and Morality: The Search for a# Third Way, John Baylis
6. Nuclear Weapons and the Post-Cold War Middle East: Business as Usual, Efraim Karsh
7. The South Asian Nuclear Challenge, Ramesh Thakur
8. Nuclear Disarmament: The Case for Incrimentalism, Harald Müller
9. The Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Michael McGwire
10. Reflecting on War in the 21st Century: The Context for Nuclear Abolition, Robert McNamara
11. At the End of a Journey: The Risks of Cold War Thinking in a New Era, Lee Butler
12. Weapons of the Under Dog, Robert ONeill
Appendix 1: Prepared Statement on the Future of Nuclear Deterrence, Walter B. Slocombe
Appendix 2: Legality of the use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Confict, International Court of Justice, The Hague
Appendix 3: 1996 Pronouncement on Nuclear Weapons, Michael Quinlan
Appendix 4: Executive Summary, Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons