Papers presented at a conference held Jan. 13-15, 1983 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, organized by the Academy and the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

Preface :What now for arms control? / Paul Doty -- Arms control and the nuclear weapons freeze / Jan H. Kalicki -- The freeze and beyond / Henry W. Kendall -- A rapidly negotiable, first-stage nuclear freeze / Franklin A. Long -- Conceptual foundations of a comprehensive nuclear freeze / Christopher E. Paine -- Exploring the feasibility of a ban on warhead production / Jane M.O. Sharp -- Soviet diversion of plutonium under IAEA safeguards [an exchange between Frank von Hippel and Joseph S. Nye] -- Public attitudes toward the freeze / Louis Harris -- Learning from the P.S.R. : successful methods for major impact / H. Jack Geiger -- The freeze in political context / Jonathan Moore -- The impact of the nuclear freeze movement on Congress / Douglas C. Waller -- The freeze : near-term issues and near-term approaches / Albert Gore -- Why we should freeze total deployed nuclear weapons / Ian M. Lodal -- Perspectives on the freeze / Roger C. Molander -- Arms control vs. the freeze / Christopher M. Lehman -- Verification of a nuclear freeze / William E. Colby -- First steps toward a freeze / Herbert Scoville, Jr. -- Verification and negotiation / Walter Slocombe -- Judging the freeze : the inevitable trade-offs / Leon Sloss -- Ethical dimensions of the nuclear danger / Mary Hennessey -- Acceptable deterrence and the freeze / Bruce Martin Russett -- Ethical aspects of nuclear freeze proposals / Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. -- Moscow's arms control agenda / Stephen J. Flanagan -- Soviet military programs and the freeze / Stephen M. Meyer -- Why Andropov would reject a bilateral freeze / Dimitri Simes -- The political importance of the freeze / Richard J. Barnet -- Western Europe and the freeze / William E. Griffith -- The economic impact of a bilateral nuclear weapons freeze / David Gold -- The European perspective on the concept of a nuclear freeze / Johan Jorgen Holst -- Fire and ice / Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. -- Public support for the freeze : the people speak / Edward J. Markey -- Nuclear arms control : nothing until everything? / McGeorge Bundy -- Stopping the nuclear arms race : defining the possible / Randall Forsberg -- Avoiding nuclear sectarianism : toward a compromise / Joseph S. Nye -- Legislating bilateral freeze restraints and mandating negotiations on the freeze / Jeremy J. Stone -- A nuclear freeze reprise / Steven E. Miller.