Newhouse plants himself firmly in the multilateralist camp, in an article with the same title as the book: "Nothing less than sustained multilateralism will enable major powers to neutralize the interactive problems of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction." In another salient observation, Newhouse contends that "Russia's warning system against submarine missile attack, designed around a new generation of satellites, is still inoperable." In this assertion, Newhouse has confirmed that Russia has no credible defense from
fleet ballistic missile submarines of the Trident II type, armed with D-5 missiles.