In this Stimson Center Book, Michael Krepon calls on the United States to replace the Cold War era strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction with a balanced approach combining cooperative threat reduction, disarmament treaties, and theater missile defense, learn more.

“Michael Krepon’s book, carefully researched and clearly written, makes a compelling case that cooperative threat reduction should have the first priority in America’s national security agenda. And he describes practical, specific programs that could respond to such a priority.”

William J. Perry

Former Secretary of Defense