Not For the Sake of Their Blue Eyes

The Reith Lectures

• Episode: Not For the Sake of Their Blue Eyes
• Website: The Reith Lectures
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• Duration: 00:29:36
• Published: 1981-12-09 10:00

Professor Laurence Martin, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, considers the strategic policy of the nuclear age in his series of Reith Lectures 'The Two-Edged Sword' In his fifth lecture entitled 'Not for the Sake of their Blue Eyes', Professor Martin debates the role that arms control and disarmament can play for a country. He questions how countries can reconcile the internal complexity of the modern military scene by asking whether diplomatic negotiation and an armament ceiling might be a better solution.