Modernizing NATO’s Nuclear Weapons

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2. The Weapons: Should they be Modernized?

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   2. NATO and Warsaw Pact Theatre Nuclear Forces

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   3. Why NATO Wants to Modernize its Theatre Nuclear Weapons

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   4. Why Critics do not Want NATO to Modernize its Theatre Nuclear Forces

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   5. What Does Modernization Mean? The Arguments Applied

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   6. The Political Spectrum: Parliamentary Opinion in NATO Countries

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   7. To Modernize or Not to Modernize? Conclusion to Part 1

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3. The Decision: How Should it be Made?

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   2. Decision-making in NATO: How it Works

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   3. Decision-making in NATO: the Modernization of Theatre Nuclear Forces

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   4. Critique of the NATO Decision-making Process: Decisions are Neither Democratically Made nor Democratically Accounted For

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   5. Defence of the NATO Decision-making Process: Decisions are Made Freely by a Consensus of Democratically Elected Governments Accountable to Their National Parliaments

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   6. When is a Decision a Decision?

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   7. When is Democracy Democratic? Conclusion to Part 2

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4. Montebello 2

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   2. General Conclusion

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   3. Epilogue: How Things Stand at the End of 1988

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5. Back Matter

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An examination of the current state of nuclear forces which explores the official defence policies of all 16 NATO countries, the rationale behind modernization plans and the opposition to these plans. The author establishes principles to guide continuing controversy in this area.

• decision-making
• democracy
• government
• NATO
• parliament
• state
• theatre
• Warsaw Pact
• weapons

• School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

  Oliver Ramsbotham

Policies and ethics