Toward a Comprehensive Test Ban by Steve FetterReview by: Gregory F. TrevertonForeign Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Winter, 1988), p. 176Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043792 .

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defense, at least not funded out of its own budget. For the author these conclusions are sad ones; others will regard them as prudent.

EUROPE IN THE WESTERN ALLIANCE: TOWARDS A EUROPEAN DEFENCE ENTITY. Edited by Jonathan Alford and Kenneth Hunt. New York: St. Martin's, 1988, 246 pp. $45.00. RETHINKING THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS DILEMMA IN EUROPE. Edited by P. Terrence Hopmann and Frank Barnaby. New York: St.

Martin's, 1988, 374 pp. $55.00. ATBMS AND WESTERN SECURITY: MISSILE DEFENSES FOR EU ROPE. Edited by Donald L. Hafner and John Roper. Cambridge: Ballinger, 1988,325 pp.

These three volumes, each with a distinguished set of contributors, examine different aspects of European security. As SDI has faded, so have its European kin, anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) systems, but there is an argument for better air defense in Europe quite independent of SDI, and the Hafner-Roper volume assesses an issue that will return in some

form. The Hopmann-Barnaby book was completed before the INF treaty but is still a valuable brainstorming for alternatives to the current nuclear status quo in Europe. Perhaps the most interesting of the three, the Alford

Hunt volume looks at an old issue given new life by a combination of self assertion by Europe and the continent's lack of confidence in the United States: greater European defense cooperation. The prospects remain mod

est?Pierre Lellouche is at his provocative best in outlining a bold program for integration by France, Britain and the Federal Republic?but the book is a fitting tribute to my friend and former colleague, the late Jonathan

Alford.

TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN. By Steve Fetter. Cam

bridge: Ballinger, 1988, 224 pp. $29.95.

Fetter assesses this most elusive of arms control objectives in the matter

of-fact manner of a scientist. His conclusion about the effect of a ban is that "the connection between testing and the missions that forces could perform is weaker than both proponents and opponents [have maintain

ed]." In particular, testing is not crucial to deterrence, only

to "war

fighting" strategies, and so he favors a complete?as opposed to a thresh

old?ban, perhaps done in phases as verification techniques permit.

WITHOUT THE BOMB: THE POLITICS OF NUCLEAR PROLIFER ATION. By Mitchell Reiss. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, 336 pp.

Nonproliferation has dropped sharply on the policy agenda, but it will

return, spurred by the knowledge that missile technology is proliferating faster than nuclear capability. Reiss's careful study of six dogs who did not

bark?technologically capable nations that chose not to go overtly nuclear?

is valuable background. They were deterred partly by international sanc

tions but more by domestic politics and bilateral relations, and by their sense that their security would not be enhanced by openly joining the

nuclear club.

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