ABSTRACT
Although Imai and the author are in agreement on many factual matters and on a fair range of policy issues, the author wishes to focus on several points of difference. Indeed, Imai makes the point that no one can say with conviction that nuclear power can meet the energy requirements of the future, and that pessimism is warranted for all of the energy candidates. Imai's observation that only the truly desperate nation would use these weapons is not particularly comforting, given the frequency with which one group of people and then another do feel desperate; there may be those who would perceive, rightly or wrongly, some net advantage from their use. Imai also tells us that we should worry more about the spread of advanced delivery technologies, and the author agree that there is much to worry about in this regard. Imai argues that limiting such technology centers to nuclear weapon states would violate the Nonproliferation Treaty.
