TY - BOOK AU - May,Michael M. AU - Bing,George F. AU - Steinbruner,John D. TI - Strategic Arms Reductions SN - 0815755252 (pbk. : alk. paper) : AV - U263 .M345 1988 U1 - 355.0217 PY - 1988/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - The Brookings Institution KW - Nuclear warfare KW - Strategic forces KW - Nuclear arms control KW - Deterrence (Strategy) N1 - "Prepared in cooperation with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."; Includes bibliographical references N2 - In 1980, the U. S. National Academy of Sciences established the Committee on International Security and Arms Control to discuss security issues with professional colleagues in the Soviet Union. In the course of these discussions, possible strategic arms reduction were considered and standard calculations of physical weapons effects were used to assess the significance of these reductions. The analysis presented in this study evolved from those discussions ER -