Avoiding Armageddon : our future, our choice : companion to the PBS series from Ted Turner Documentaries / Martin Schram.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. One. Reversing the nuclear race : sprinting against terrorists, tempers and time -- Ch. 1. Nucleat thieves -- Ch. 2. Nuclear nightmares -- Ch. 3. A proliferator's history of nuclear proliferation : naïveté and greed -- Ch. 4. South Asia's nuclear crisis : how "Atoms for Peace" became "Atoms for War" -- Ch. 5. Nuclear wasteland -- Ch. 6. Today's nuclear solutions : the birth of a notion : securing and old enemy's weapons -- Ch. 7. Just minutes to decide -- Ch. 8. Future nuclear solutions : buying time -- Pt. Two. Zeroing in on silent killers : the urgent unmaking of a century of chemical and biological arsenals -- Ch. 9. The horror of Halabja -- Ch. 10. when history blinked : a tale of chemical weapons bans, loopholes and belated resolve -- Ch. 11. Terror in Tokyo -- Ch. 12. Secret sprayings : U.S. gas experiments used cities, schoolkids and sailors -- Ch. 13. Chemical crisis and response : a challenge of destruction -- Ch. 14. East meets West : germ warfare's historic twists and turns -- Ch. 15. Russian bio-shock : Soviet secrets dumbfound U.S. intelligence -- Ch. 16. Threats : bio-terror USA : a few grams fill a nation with fear -- Pt. Three. Terror : how mass murder became an almighty act -- Ch. 17. On the fly with Osama -- Ch. 18. Terrorism through the ages : evolution and revolution -- Ch. 19. Suicide bombers : what makes them tick -- Pt. Four. Future Solutions : toward feeling safe again -- Ch. 20. Securing homelands -- Ch. 21. Nation-building for tomorrow's national security -- Ch. 22. Combating AIDS as a national security crisis -- Ch. 23. Toward a global marshall plan -- Ch. 24. Nuclear future : can we get down to zero? -- Ch. 25. What leaders and citizens can do.