LEADER 04422nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910961115503321 005 20251117005938.0 010 $a0-8135-4949-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040929 035 $a(OCoLC)659584814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10393231 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314285 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10365595 035 $a(PQKB)10540764 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3032154 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3032154 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10393231 035 $a(BIP)32329767 035 $a(BIP)27130833 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040929 100 $a20090504d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aApocalypse never $eforging the path to a nuclear weapon-free world /$fTad Daley 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8135-4661-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aApocalypse 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. 330 $a Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. 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 Strangelove have been replaced by the all-too-real single day of 24 .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 incarnation--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 fantasy into a concrete political goal. 606 $aNuclear disarmament 606 $aNuclear arms control 606 $aNuclear nonproliferation 615 0$aNuclear disarmament. 615 0$aNuclear arms control. 615 0$aNuclear nonproliferation. 676 $a327.1/747 700 $aDaley$b Tad$01867832 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961115503321 996 $aApocalypse never$94475558 997 $aUNINA