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SUMARIO: Summary - Policy shift: the defense counter-proliferation initiative - The spread of weapons of mass destruction - Questions demanding an answer: responding to radical proliferators - History's lessons for preemptive counter-proliferation decisions - Preventing nazi a-bombs - Bombardment of Tokyo's nuclear labs - Iran attacks an iraqi nuclear reactor - Israel's osirak attack - India thwarts israeli destruction of Pakistan's islamic bomb - Iraq destroys Iran's bushehr reactor - Lessons of the gulf war - The missile crisis: an air strike deferred - Dealing with a potential nuclear Hitler - The proliferation challenge of North Korea - Reviewing radical responses to radical regimes - Notes.