Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Brilliant, original, and important-the best analysis yet of why nuclear weapons don't work." -Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem:...
Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem:...
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"Brilliant, original, and important-the best analysis yet of why nuclear weapons don't work." -Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they're obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. It clears up such common misconceptions as...
. Nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II
. Nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis
. Destruction wins wars
. The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years
. We can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle
Drawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the myths on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built. Using pragmatic arguments and an unemotional, clear-eyed insistence on the truth, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don't appear to be terribly useful. In that case, he asks, why would we want to keep them?
This book will be widely read and discussed by everyone who cares about war, peace, foreign policy, and security in the twenty-first century.
"Magisterial in its sweep, research, and erudition, yet written in a direct, unstuffy style, which makes it an easy read." -Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (ret.)
"This slim, persuasively argued, tightly written book provides much food for thought and could make some readers radically change their perceptions about nuclear weapons." -Booklist
Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they're obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. It clears up such common misconceptions as...
. Nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II
. Nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis
. Destruction wins wars
. The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years
. We can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle
Drawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the myths on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built. Using pragmatic arguments and an unemotional, clear-eyed insistence on the truth, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don't appear to be terribly useful. In that case, he asks, why would we want to keep them?
This book will be widely read and discussed by everyone who cares about war, peace, foreign policy, and security in the twenty-first century.
"Magisterial in its sweep, research, and erudition, yet written in a direct, unstuffy style, which makes it an easy read." -Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (ret.)
"This slim, persuasively argued, tightly written book provides much food for thought and could make some readers radically change their perceptions about nuclear weapons." -Booklist
Autoren-Porträt von Ward Wilson
WARD WILSON is a Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He has spoken before governments, the United Nations, and at think tanks and universities, including Stanford, Princeton, Georgetown, and the Naval War College.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ward Wilson
- 2013, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: HMH Books
- ISBN-10: 0547858175
- ISBN-13: 9780547858173
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2013
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