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Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late
Joseph Cirincione
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Description for Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JPSF; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231164054
SKU
V9780231164054
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About Joseph Cirincione
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late
Cirincione lucidly provides a greater understanding of the threats still posed by the 17,000 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.
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