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Desmond Ball, Hans A. Bethe, Bruce G. Blair, Paul Bracken, Ashton B. Carter, Hillman Dickinson, Richard L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, David Holloway, Henry W. Kendall, Lloyd R. Leavitt, Jr., Richard Ned Lebow, Condoleezza Rice, Peter C. Stein, John D. Steinbruner, Lucja U. Swiatkowski, Paul D. Tomb, Crisis Stability and Nuclear War, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 40, No. 8 (May, 1987), pp. 18-28
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