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2009/2010 College Debate Topic

The 2009/2010 College Debate Topic is about nuclear weapons.

The United States should decrease its reliance on nuclear weapons.

I was asked for reading suggestions. Mine are:

(1) John Steinbruner, Managing Deterrent Operations, Chapter 2 of Principles of Global Security (Brookings, 2000), and

(2) Ivo Daalder and Jan Lodal, The Logic of Zero: Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Affairs, (November/December 2008).

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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