Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Avoiding Armageddon -- Introduction -- 1 The Defence and Security Environment, 1945- 9 -- 2 Canada's Air Defence Debate -- 3 Canadian Views on Nuclear Weapons and Related Issues of Strategy -- 4 The Canadian Debate on the Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons -- 5 Canadian Conceptual Understanding of Arms Control -- 6 Links between Canadian Strategic Thinking and Defence Policy, 1950- 63 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.