Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons

• Date de parution : 15/01/2013
• Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• EAN : 9780547858173
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• Support : Livre numérique

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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 theyre obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five... Voir plus

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 theyre 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 cant 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 dont 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.