This book is about the law and order issue, and the role social scientists have played in legitimating it as a problem of grave social consequences. It is a study on rising crime rates and criminal behaviour within the limits of conventional social science, with its advantages and disadvantages.

Lynn McDonald

Introduction -- Strategy as Doctrine: The Political Uses of Strategic Doctrine in NATO -- The Neutron Bomb and Alliance Strategy -- Forward Based Systems, Long-Range Nuclear Forces, Grey Areas, and the Eurostrategic Balances -- Long-Range Theatre Nuclear Force Modernisation and the Politics of Nuclear Consultation