Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World - Rilegato

Daley, Tad

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ISBN 10: 0813546613 ISBN 13: 9780813546612

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Argues that nuclear weapons pose the single most immediate peril to humans, explains that the abolition of these weapons of mass destruction is both essential and achievable and details what governments and individuals need to do to make this abolition a reality.

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L'autore:

Tad Daley, J.D., Ph.D., directs the Project on Abolishing War at the Center for War/Peace Studies in New York. He previously served as a speechwriter for Congressman Dennis Kucinich and the late Senator Alan Cranston, as a visiting scholar at UCLA, and as a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Visit his websites: www.daleyplanet.org and www.apocalypsenever.org.

Product Description:

The United States. North Korea. Iran. India. Pakistan. Israel. Nuclear weapons abolition. Nuclear catastrophe or nuclear disarmament? The twenty-first century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The pop culture days of Dr. Strangelove have been replaced by the all-too-real single day of 24. Tad Daley has written a book for the general reader about this most crucial of contemporary challenges. "Apocalypse Never" maintains that the abolition of nuclear weapons is both essential and achievable, and reveals in fine detail what we need to do - both governments and movements - to make it a reality. Daley insists that while global climate change poses the single greatest long-term peril to the human race, the nuclear challenge in its many incarnations - nuclear terror, nuclear accident, a nuclear crisis spinning out of control - poses the single most immediate peril. Daley launches a wholesale assault on the nuclear double standard - the notion that the United States permits itself thousands of these weapons but forbids others from aspiring to even one - insisting that it is militarily unnecessary, morally indefensible, and politically unsustainable. He conclusively repudiates the most frequent objection to nuclear disarmament, 'the breakout scenario' - the possibility that after abolition someone might whip back the curtain, reveal a dozen nuclear warheads, and proceed to 'rule the world'. On the wings of a brand new era in American history, "Apocalypse Never" makes the case that a comprehensive nuclear policy agenda from President Obama, one that fully integrates nonproliferation with disarmament, can both eliminate immediate nuclear dangers and set us irreversibly on the road to abolition. In jargon-free language, Daley explores the possible verification measures, enforcement mechanisms, and governance structures of a nuclear weapon-free world. Most importantly, he decisively argues that universal nuclear disarmament is something we can transform from a utopian

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• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0813546613
• ISBN 13: 9780813546612
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 296