Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero

ISBN-13: 9780367010515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 344 str.

Joseph Rotblat; Frank Blackaby

Opis

This volume of essays, a map of the road to zero, gives the reader a primer on the current state of nuclear disarmament, provides an up-to-date argument for the merits of a nuclear-weapon-free world, and outlines the steps needed to attain that goal. Its editor is Joseph Rotblat, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner. The volume assesses recent efforts by scholars, military leaders, and political figures in advocating the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Spis treści

A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World; The Anatomy of the Argument (Michael MccGwire); The Phased Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (Cathleen Fisher); Verifying Nuclear Disarmament (Steve Fetter); Societal Verification (Frank Blackaby); Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Theft (John P. Holdren and Matthew Bunn); Breakout from a Nuclear Weapons Convention (Tom Milne and Joseph Rotblat); * The Road to Zero: Progress and Regress; Progress in Nuclear Weapons Reductions (Thomas B. Cochran, Robert S. Norris, and Christopher E. Paine); Ballistic Missile Defense: Enduring Questions (John Pike); Nuclear Weapon Development Without Nuclear Testing? (Richard L. Garwin and Vadim A. Simonenko); Western Nuclear Doctrine: Changes and Influences (Daniel Plesch); Russian Nuclear Disarmament Dilemmas (Alexander Nikitin); Prospects for Further Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Treaties (Rebecca Johnson); Nuclear Disarmament: Closing the Gaps (Jan Prawitz)

O autorze

Joseph Rotbalt is the 1995 Nobel Prize winner for Peace.