Includes index.

Introduction: No democracy, no security / Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan -- National security state and the tragedy of empire / Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan -- The centrality of the atomic bomb / Gar Alperovitz and Kai Bird -- The Cold War and the fate of democratic culture / Norman Birnbaum -- The nuclear crucible / Terrence Edward Paupp -- The nuclear legacy of the Cold War / John Steinbruner and Jeffrey Lewis -- The Iraq War and the future of international law / Richard Falk -- Weapons of mass destruction and human rights / Peter Weiss and John Burroughs -- Cold War continuum / William Blum -- A report on NAFTA and the state of the maquilas / Saul Landau -- Courts and universities as institutions in the national security state / Anabel L. Dwyer and David J. Dwyer -- The Pentagon’s welfare budget / Seymour Melman -- Security’s conquest of federal law enforcement / Peter Raven-Hansen -- The seeds of secrecy, then and now / Anna K. Nelson -- The national security state, war, and Congress / Marcus G. Raskin and A. Carl LeVan -- Myth versus hypothesis / Norman Mailer -- Out of the shadows / Marcus G. Raskin.