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Nuclear Disengagement in Europe
There has been an upsurge of public concern over the nuclear threat to Europe. Already saturated with nuclear weapons, Europe faces controversial new deployments and there is alarm over military strategies for nuclear war in the region. It is in this context that the idea of nuclear weapon-free zones has captured the popular imagination and become a political issue in Europe. Not only would such zones build confidence and raise the nuclear threshold, but they would be first steps towards a more comprehensive elimination of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Disengagement in Europe probes the question of nuclear weapon-free zones in the region. Pugwash and SIPRI arranged a meeting at which an international team of lawyers, scientists, politicians and military experts gave background information and provided an appraisal of problems regarding the zone initiatives as well as benefits that would accrue. Possible elements in a European zone arrangement were elaborated on and procedures towards the establishment of such a zone were suggested.
Table of contents
Part I. Nuclear disengagement
Nuclear Disengagement
S. Lodgaard
Part II. Proposals for nuclear disengagement in Europe
1. Nuclear disengagement efforts 1955-80: politics of status quo or political change?
M. Saeter
2. A central European view on a nuclear weapon-free zone in the North
J. Wiejacz
3. European security policy in the 1980s: rethinking Western strategy
W. Schütze
4. A nuclear weapon-free zone in the Balkans
N. Behar and I. Nedev
5. Disengagement and nuclear weapon-free zones: raising the nuclear threshold
S. Lodgaard and P. Berg
Part III. A nuclear weapon-free zone in the North: the military context
6. The northern seas in Soviet and US strategy
S. Miller
7. The Barents and Arctic Seas in power calculations: implications for Norway and the Nordic countries
C. Jacobsen
8. The geostrategic framework for a Nordic NWFZ and the political-military consequences
B. Hugemark
Part IV. Elements of a Nordic Zone
9. The establishment of nuclear weapon-free zones in Europe: proposal on a treaty text
J. Evensen
10. A Nordic nuclear weapon-free zone: model and procedure
J. Prawitz
11. Possible rules regulating the transit of nuclear weapons inside and their deployment outside a Nordic NWFZ
K. Törnudd
12. Technical feasibility of the detection of nuclear weapons
A. Gsponer
13. Non-use of nuclear weapons and NWFZs
A. Rosas
Part V. Procedure
14. Comments on a draft declaration
A. Rosas
15. How to proceed towards a Nordic nuclear weapon-free zone
R. Ekéus
16. A flexible approach to a Nordic NWFZ
F. Calogero
17. The NWFZ as a popular move: informed, rational and imaginative politics
M. Thee
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