"Peacekeeping in the 1990s offers a varied and comprehensive agenda of peace-related issues. They range across the spectrum of military budgets, arms control, Canadian defence policy, the environment, nuclear energy, the role of science, education, parenting, low intensity welfare and the Gulf War. They also include several poignant and moving personal accounts such as the nuclear devastation of Nagasaki and the civil war in Nicaragua. What should we know, how should we act? Fortunately, Thomas Perry provides a succinct abstract of each article, thought interspersing biographical data with the introduction is confusing ..."--from review by Henry Wiseman, Dept. of Political Studies, U of Guelph.