Joseph Cirincione

Nuclear Nightmares (eBook, ePUB)

Securing the World Before It Is Too Late

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong-these weapons, possessed by states large and small, stable and unstable, remain an ongoing nightmare.

Joseph Cirincione surveys the best thinking and worst fears of experts specializing in nuclear warfare and assesses the efforts to reduce or eliminate these nuclear dangers. His book offers hope: in the 1960s, twenty-three states had nuclear weapons and research programs; today, only nine states have weapons. More countries have abandoned nuclear weapon programs than have developed them, and global arsenals are just one-quarter of what they were during the Cold War. Yet can these trends continue, or are we on the brink of a new arms race-or worse, nuclear war? A former member of Senator Obama's nuclear policy team, Cirincione helped shape the policies unveiled in Prague in 2009, and, as president of an organization intent on reducing nuclear threats, he operates at the center of debates on nuclear terrorism, new nuclear nations, and the risks of existing arsenals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231535762
• Artikelnr.: 39973258

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