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PROLIFERATION REVISITED Marc Trachtenberg Political Science Department University of California at Los Angeles June 24, 2002 Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2002) The distinguished international relations theorist Kenneth Waltz thinks that the emergence of new nuclear powers is not necessarily to be regretted. In a world of many nuclear powers, in Waltz’s view, a major war would be practically impossible. He therefore believes that “more may be better”—that what has co