Nuclear Nightmares - Securing the World Before it is too late

The thinking and leadership we need to avoid an irreversible tragedy.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I. Policy
1. Promise
2. Legacy
3. Pivot
Part II. Nightmares
4. Arsenals and Accidents
5. Calculating Armageddon
6. Exploding Budgets
7. The 95 Percent
8. The Most Dangerous Country on Earth
Part III. Solutions
9. Posture and Proliferation
10. The End of Proliferation
11. Foundations
Appendix A. Remarks by President Barack Obama
Appendix B. Statement by President Barack Obama on the Release of Nuclear Posture Review
Appendix C. Remarks by President Barack Obama at the United Nations Security Council Summit on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament
Appendix D. Excerpts from President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address
Appendix E. Remarks by President Barack Obama at New START Treaty Signing Ceremony
Appendix F. Ploughshares Fund
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

The thinking and leadership we need to avoid an irreversible tragedy.

Product details

• Authors: Cirincione, Joseph Cirincione, Joseph (The Ploughshares Fund) Cirincione, Cirincione Joseph
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9780231164047
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16404-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear weapons, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control, political freedom; security; international relations