Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons: Survival Or Sentence

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Basic Books, 17 juin 2009 - 448 pages
We continue to face a choice with respect to nuclear weapons – either to move safely toward their elimination or to remain their victim. A forty-year effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons is breaking down, and the likely acquisition of these weapons by terrorist groups is growing. In Fatal Choice, Richard Butler, a well-known and respected voice on the subject of nuclear weapons, argues that we are poised on the verge of a second and much more threatening nuclear arms race than the one experienced throughout the Cold War. This threat is clearly reflected in nuclear weapons development by India, Pakistan, Iraq, and North Korea. The revival by the Bush administration of missile defense will not deal with the problem but worsen it. Butler outlines the steps that can be taken to give effect to the right choice on nuclear weapons.

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The Problem of Nuclear Weapons I
1
Arms Control and Security
19
The NonProliferation Regime
45
Proliferation Today
75
Nuclear Defense
95
Nuclear Security
121
Plan of Action
139
Notes
157
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A former Australian Ambassador to the UN, Richard Butler headed the United Nations Special Commission to disarm Iraq from 1997 to 1999. He is currently Diplomat in Residence at the Council of Foreign Relations. He lives in New York City.

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