Sleepwalking to Armageddon
Subtitle: the threat of nuclear annihilation
By: edited and with an introduction by Helen Caldicott
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781620972465
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; World politics; Nuclear disarmament; Prevention; Nuclear warfare
Other titles: Threat of nuclear annihilation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-226).
Table of contents: title: Twenty-first-century nuclear weaponry; title: Assessing global catastrophic risk / Seth D. Baum; title: Modernization of nuclear weaponry / Hans Kristensen; title: Nuclear smoke and the climatic effects of nuclear war / Alan Robock; title: Addicted to weapons / Bruce Gagnon; title: The plutonium problem / Bob Alvarez; title: Nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence / Max Tegmark; title: Weapons scientists up close / Hugh Gusterson; title: Twenty-first-century nuclear politics; title: National politics versus national security / Noam Chomsky; title: Escalation watch : four looming flashpoints facing President Trump / Michael Klare; title: Nuclear politics / William Hartung; title: Ignition points for global catastrophe / Richard Broinowski; title: Nuclear weapons : how foreign hotspots could test Trump's finger on the trigger / Julian Borger; title: The existential madness of Putin-bashing / Robert Parry; title: The sudden German nuke flirtation / Ulrich Kühn; title: Solutions; title: Law and morality at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons / Ray Acheson; title: A new movement to ban nuclear weapons / Tim Wright; title: Don't bank on the bomb / Susi Snyder; title: Nuclear weapons and possible human extinction : the heroic Marshall Islanders / David Krieger; title: Persistent violence and silent suffering: Marshallese migrants in Washington State / Holly Barker; title: Adding democracy to nuclear policy / Kennette Benedict.