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Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
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Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twentyfirst century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The pop culture days of Dr. Strangelove have been replaced by the alltooreal single day of 24.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 doboth governments and movementsto make it a reality. Daley insists that while global climate change poses the single greatest longterm peril to the human race, the nuclear challenge in its many incarnationnuclear terror, nuclear accident, a nuclear crisis spinning out of controlposes the single most immediate peril. Daley launches a wholesale assault on the nuclear double standardthe notion that the United States permits itself thousands of these weapons but forbids others from aspiring to even oninsisting 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 jargonfree 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.
Apocalypse Never maintains that the abolition of nuclear weapons is both essential and achievable, and reveals in fine detail what we need to doboth governments and movementsto make it a reality. Daley insists that while global climate change poses the single greatest longterm peril to the human race, the nuclear challenge in its many incarnationnuclear terror, nuclear accident, a nuclear crisis spinning out of controlposes the single most immediate peril. Daley launches a wholesale assault on the nuclear double standardthe notion that the United States permits itself thousands of these weapons but forbids others from aspiring to even oninsisting 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 jargonfree 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.