Nuclear Nightmares; Securing the World Before It is Too Late
Vin Dans (Jacket Design) New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 266, [2] pages. Tables. Appendix A-F. Notes. Index. Joseph Cirincione (born 13 November 1949) is the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy and conflict resolution. Cirincione has advocated for negotiations to end the diplomatic stalemate regarding the nuclear program of Iran. His many public espousals of nonviolent conflict resolution include an appearance on The Colbert Report. Cirincione previously served as vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. For eight years he was the director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he chaired and organized five of the annual Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conferences. 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 weapons and research programs; today, only nine states have weapons. More countries have abandoned nuclear weapon programs than have developed them, and global arsenals are just one-quarter of what they were during the Cold War. Yet can these trends continue, or are we on the brink of a new arms race—or worse, nuclear war? A former member of Senator Obama's nuclear policy team, Cirincione helped shape the policies unveiled in Prague in 2009, and, as president of an organization intent on reducing nuclear threats, he operates at the center of debates on nuclear terrorism, new nuclear nations, and the risks of existing arsenals. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Antimissile, Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Fissile Material, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Testing, Weapons of Mass Destruction
ISBN: 9780231164047
[Book #76893]
Price: $35.00