An explosive rethinking of the power and purpose of nuclear weapons — and a call for radical actionNuclear 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 is a myth:• that nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II• that nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis• that destruction wins wars• that the bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years• and that we can’t put the nuclear genie back in the bottleDrawing 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.

Product Description: This work offers both qualitative and quantitative analyses of how the presence of nuclear weapons effects conflict escalation rates among international states. The qualitative section of the book focuses on the volatile Indo-Pakistani relationship and clearly demonstrates that the addition of nuclear weapons has served to retard conflict escalation between the two...read more

Product Description: The president loses control of fifty nukes for nearly an hour. Russian nuclear bombers almost bump wingtips with American fighter jets over the Pacific coast. North Korea detonates nuclear weapons underground. Iran’s nuclear shroud is penetrated by a computer worm...read more

Product Description: Two Washington, D.C., defense reporters do for nukes what Sarah Vowell did for presidential assassinations in this fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of nuclear weaponry.In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge hit the open road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry...read more

Covering everything from print reading to painting, this comprehensive text is useful for vocational building construction programs in secondary and post-secondary schools.

Product Description: Covering everything from print reading to painting, this comprehensive text is useful for vocational building construction programs in secondary and post-secondary schools.