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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820204103321

Autore

Daley Tad

Titolo

Apocalypse never [[electronic resource] ] : forging the path to a nuclear weapon-free world / / Tad Daley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8135-4949-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/747

Soggetti

Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear arms control

Nuclear nonproliferation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Apocalypse soon? -- The essence of the problem: America's nuclear hypocrisy -- The nightmare of nuclear terror -- Accidental atomic apocalypse -- Nuclear crisis mismanagement: "there would be no learning curve" -- Intentional use: the nuclear legacy of George W. Bush -- The grand bargain of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and the rules of the nuclear game today -- Nuclear weapons are militarily unnecessary and militarily useless.  for us.  -- The architecture of a nuclear weapon-free world -- Breakout: could someone cheat and rule the world? -- How it might happen: transforming abolition from a utopian fantasy into a concrete political goal -- Apocalypse never.