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Draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear weapons and ensure the safety of the nuclear enterprise of weapons and reactors against catastrophic accidents. The contributors discuss what we can learn from past successes and failures and attempt to identify the key ingredients that can lead us toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
About the author
George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former U.S. secretary of state. He is the coauthor of
Communicating with the World of Islam and
Issues on My Mind and the coeditor of
Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them and
Game Changers. He lives in San Francisco.
Sidney D. Drell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University. He is the coauthor of
Gravest Danger and
New Terror. He lives in Palo Alto, California. Drell and Shultz previously collaborated on
Deterrence,
Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary,
The Nuclear Enterprise, and
Reykjavik Revisited.
Henry A. Kissinger was national security advisor and the secretary of state under presidents Nixon and Ford and is currently chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm. He is the author of
World Order. He lives in San Francisco.
Sam Nunn is the cochairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and a former U.S. senator from Georgia. He lives in Stanford, California.
Summary
Some contributions were delivered as papers at a meeting of the American Nuclear Society on November 11, 2013.
