I.ABM deployment: what's wrong with it? An overview / by Abram Chayes [and others] -- II. Minuteman defense: will it help? -- Defense of the deterrent / by Carl Kaysen ; -- Some first-strike scenarios / by Jerome B. Wiesner ; -- What does Safeguard safeguard? / by Steven Weinberg ; -- Command and control / by Bill D. Moyers. -- III. Safeguard system: will it work? ABM reliability / by Leonard S. Rodberg ; -- Underestimates and overexpectations / assembled by J.C.R. Licklider ; -- Countermeasures to ABM systems / by Hans A. Bethe ; -- The problem of momentum / by Adam Yarmolinsky. -- IV. Strategic balance: will it be upset? -- The effect of ABM on U.S.-Soviet relations / by Marshall D. Shulman ; -- The Chinese nuclear threat / by Allen S. Whiting ; -- Asia and the ABM / by Allen S. Whiting ; -- The ABM and Western Europe / by Theodore C. Sorensen. -- V. Arms control: will it be set back? -- The ABM and arms control / by Bernard T. Feld ; -- Can the Communists deceive us? / by Jeremy J. Stone ; -- ABM and non-proliferation / by Mason Willrich ; -- The attitude of the world community toward the ABM / by Arthur J. Goldberg. -- VI. Appendix. Glossary ; Chronology ; -- Basic documents in the debate ; -- Some effects of nuclear weapons ; -- Technical notes.