TY - BOOK AU - Rotblat,Joseph AU - Hellman, Sven TI - Nuclear strategy and world security: : annals of Pugwash 1984 SN - 0333396685 PY - 1985/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - SEGURIDAD INTERNACIONAL KW - DESARME KW - ARMAS NUCLEARES KW - ARMAMENTISMO N2 - In 1984 a low point was reached in international relations, particularly between the superpowers. The deployment by NATO of Pershing IIs and cruise missiles in Europe and the counter-deployment by the Warsaw Pact countries, the failure to halt the militarization of space, and the lack of progress for a chemical weapons convention, gave further twists to the already danguerous spiral of the arms race. Nuclear weapons -the modern sword of Damocles- continued to threaten the survival mankind ER -