Contending that a lack of spiritual and ethical standards directly contributed to violent events in the twentieth century, an exploration of what the author believes to be the responsibilities of the world's organized religions argues for the building of environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. Original.

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Examines the potential effect of adding an additional 3.3 billion people to the Earth's population over the next fifty years and proposes an immediate expansion of international family planning assistance to Third World nations.

This overview of the technical and political dimensions of nuclear nonproliferation aims to guide the student of arms control through the fundamentals of nuclear physics, nuclear reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle in language familiar to any interested reader. The author likewise explains clearly the evaluation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, the system of international nuclear safeguards and the prospects for the extension of NPT in 1995. The primer includes information on the status of nuclear programmes in the nations of greatest proliferation concern, a glossary and the full text of the NPT.