Bomb Scare by Joseph Cirincione
Looks at the history of nuclear proliferation and provides a survey of the range of critical perspectives. This work begins with the first atomic discoveries of the 1930s and covers the history of their growth. It also explains why many nations choose not to pursue nuclear weapons and outlines of a solution to the world's proliferation problem.
Invaluable.. [Bomb Scare] ought to be read by everyone as a matter of life and death. -- Jason Epstein New York Review of Books A welcome antidote to the strange confluence of nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) opponents. -- Christopher F. Chyba Science
Joseph Cirincione is the president of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation concentrating on nuclear weapons issues, and teaches at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He has served as a senior vice president for national security at the Center for American Progress, the director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and on the professional staff of the Armed Services Committee and the Government Operations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the coauthor of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats and Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security. Joseph Cirincione is the Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, (Second Edition, 2005) and co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (March 2005). He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is one of America's best known weapons experts, appearing frequently in print and on FOX News, CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS, NPR and occasionally on Comedy Central.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231135108 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231135106 |
| Title | Bomb Scare |
| Author | Joseph Cirincione |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2007-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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