Averting Disaster: Science For Peace In A Perilous Age - The Erice International Seminars On Nuclear War And Planetary Emergencies: From 1981 To 2008

Describes one of the most exciting intellectual and political ventures of the later part of the 20th century, of the decades of the Cold War, a period of bristling East-West tension with the omnipresent possibility that its management might get out of hand, and a war of unimaginable proportion and potential damage eruption.