December 2, 2005

The Second Last Chance: American Power and Nuclear Nonproliferation

By WILLIAM C. POTTER

Nearly 30 years ago an indefatigable Canadian gadfly and sometime international civil servant by the name of William Epstein published a seminal book about the spread of nuclear weapons. Although long out of print and rarely cited by today's nonproliferation pundits, Epstein's The Last Chance: Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control (Free Press, 1976) reads as if it were written only yesterday. The potential catalytic effects of India's "peaceful" nuclear explosion, the failure of the 1970

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