title: Fantasy, reality, and the arms race: dilemmas of national security and human survival.
abstract: The recent history of the U.S. military build-up is reviewed and its rationale questioned. It is suggested that, as a means of making the nation's citizens more secure, the reliance on nuclear armaments is counterproductive. A shift of economic priorities to better serve the nation's more immediate, pressing, and real needs is urged.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005201:Fantasy; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D009689:Nuclear Warfare; D011057:Politics; D013534:Survival; D014481:United States