Joseph Cirincione

Nuclear Nightmares

Securing the World Before It Is Too Late

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The thinking and leadership we need to avoid an irreversible tragedy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780231164047
• ISBN-10: 0231164041
• Artikelnr.: 38478076

Autorenporträt

Joseph Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, and the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats. He serves on the secretary of state's International Security Advisory Board and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Please visit his web site at www.nuclearnightmaresbook.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Policy
1. Promise
2. Legacy
3. Pivot
Part II. Nightmares
4. Arsenals and Accidents
5. Calculating Armageddon
6. Exploding Budgets
7. The 95 Percent
8. The Most Dangerous Country on Earth
Part III. Solutions
9. Posture and Proliferation
10. The End of Proliferation
11. Foundations
Appendix A. Remarks by President Barack Obama
Appendix B. Statement by President Barack Obama on the Release of Nuclear
Posture Review
Appendix C. Remarks by President Barack Obama at the United Nations
Security Council Summit on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear
Disarmament
Appendix D. Excerpts from President Barack Obama's State of the Union
Address
Appendix E. Remarks by President Barack Obama at New START Treaty Signing
Ceremony
Appendix F. Ploughshares Fund
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

"Cirincione lucidly provides a greater understanding of the threats still posed by the 19,000 nuclear weapons in the world, the risk of their use and analyzes the efforts to reduce and eliminate these threats. He also provides an original contribution in its analysis of the debate surrounding the nuclear policy of the Obama administration." ¿ Lawrence Korb, Center for American Progress