Book Launch: Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, by Ward Wilson

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, a sweeping revision of ideas about nuclear weapons is underway; this radical rethinking will leave nuclear weapons policy profoundly changed. In Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Ward Wilson mounts what one observer has called a “lethal assault on the rationale for keeping nuclear weapons” using pragmatic arguments.

This groundbreaking book shows why five central arguments used to promote nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths: It is a myth that nuclear weapons “shocked” Japan into surrender at the close of World War II, that nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis, that destruction wins wars, that the bomb has kept the peace for 65 years, and that we can’t put the nuclear genie back in the bottle.

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