Beyond the Hotline: How Crisis Control Can Prevent Nuclear War

by William Ury, Martin Linsky (Other Contributor)

There is a hopeful idea in the world today. It is called crisis control. It offers a practical safeguard against the greatest danger of our time. Every morning the newspaper confronts us with the latest world crisis. Each carries the risk of igniting a U.S.-confrontation that, through miscalculation, accident, and misunderstanding could escalate out of control into nuclear war. Beyond the Hotline is for everyone who has ever worried about the nuclear threat and asked, What can be done? What can I do?" Here at last are some practical and politically feasible steps you can actively take.

187 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

William Ury is an American author, academic, anthropologist, and negotiation expert. He co-founded the Harvard Program on Negotiation. Additionally, he helped found the International Negotiation Network with former President Jimmy Carter. Ury is the co-author of Getting to Yes with Roger Fisher, which set out the method of principled negotiation and established the idea of the best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA) within negotiation theory.