Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too LateThere 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. Joe 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 ten states have weapons or are seeking them. 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 President 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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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
POLICY | 9 |
1 Promise | 11 |
2 Legacy | 19 |
3 Pivot | 37 |
NIGHTMARES | 49 |
4 Arsenals and Accidents | 51 |
5 Calculating Armageddon | 63 |
10 The End of Proliferation | 157 |
11 Foundations | 173 |
Remarks by President Barack Obama | 191 |
Statement by President Barack Obama | 199 |
Remarks by President Barack Obama | 203 |
Excerpts from President Barack Obamas State of the Union Address January 27 2010 | 207 |
Remarks by President Barack Obama at New Start Treaty Signing Ceremony Prague Czech Republic April 9 2010 | 209 |
Ploughshares Fund | 213 |
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| Title | Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late |
| Author | Joseph Cirincione |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press, 2013 |
| ISBN | 0231164041, 9780231164047 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / General Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy Political Science / Security (National & International) |
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