The War That Must Never Be Fought Dilemmas of Nuclear Deterrence

This book discusses the nuclear dilemma from various countries’ points of view: from Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and others. The final chapter proposes a new solution for the nonproliferation treaty review.

George P. Shultz has had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in the world of business. He is one of two individuals who have held four different federal cabinet posts, has taught at three of the country’s great universities, and for eight years he was president of a major engineering and construction company. He is a coauthor of Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary and Nuclear Security and coeditor of Deterrence, Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them, Game Changers, The Nuclear Enterprise, and Reykjavik Revisited. He lives in San Francisco. James E. Goodby has served in the U.S. Foreign Service, achieving the rank of Career Minister, and was appointed to five ambassadorial-rank positions and taught at Georgetown, Syracuse, and Carnegie Mellon Universities and is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow with the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He lives in Washington, DC.