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 Strangelove have been replaced by the all-too-real single day of 24.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.
Author(s): Tad Daley
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 296
Contents
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1. Apocalypse Soon?
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2. The Essence of the Problem
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3. The Nightmare of Nuclear Terror
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4. Accidental Atomic Apocalypse
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5. Nuclear Crisis Mismanagement
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6. Intentional Use
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7. The Grand Bargain of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the Rules of the Nuclear Game Today
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8. Nuclear Weapons are Militarily Unnecessary and Militarily Useless. For Us.
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9. The Architecture of a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
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10. Breakout
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11. How It Might Happen
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12. Apocalypse Never
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Glossary of Acronyms
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Organizations Working to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Forever
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Index
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