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Very good in Very good jacket. [12], 187, [9] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Introduction; Nuclear Weapons Shock and Awe Opponents; H-Bomb Quantum Leap; Nuclear Deterrence Works in a Crisis; Nuclear Weapons Keep Us Safe; There is No Alternative; and Conclusion. Ward Hayes Wilson (born April 26, 1956) is a Senior Fellow and director of the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons project at the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), a think tank focusing on nuclear disarmament based in London and Washington, D.C. Although Wilson was not widely published in the nuclear weapons field until 2007, he has quickly moved into "the forefront" of the debate about the value and utility of nuclear weapons and deterrence. He is one of five co-authors of a 2010 report sponsored by the Swiss government titled "Devaluing Nuclear Weapons." Wilson is best known for his argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan's surrender; a prevalent argument which some have recently come to challenge. Wilson was awarded the top prize in the Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge in 2008 for his "impressive and detailed critique of nuclear deterrence." Traveling extensively over the last four years, he has presented arguments that challenge accepted ideas about nuclear weapons before government and public audiences on six continents. Wilson launched his book, Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in February 2013. An explosive rethinking of the power and purpose of nuclear weapons, and a call for radical action. 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 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 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.
