Abolishing nuclear weapons
Subtitle: a debate
By: George Perkovich and James M. Acton, editors
Contributors: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Nuclear arms control; Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear nonproliferation
Description: The groundbreaking paper Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by George Perkovich and James Acton was first published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies as an Adelphi Paper in September 2008. One of the paper's main aims was to jump-start a broad international debate about how to achieve the immensely important and equally difficult goal of nuclear disarmament. The present volume takes the next step. Perkovich and Acton have invited a distinguished group of experts -- current and former officials, respected analysts and authors -- from thirteen countries, nuclear and non-nuclear, to critique the Adelphi Paper, which is reprinted here. Their diverse views explore pathways around obstacles to nuclear disarmament and sharpen questions requiring further deliberation. The volume concludes with an essay by Perkovich and Acton that works through some of the key questions and dilemmas raised by the critiques.
Notes: Contributors: Sameh Aboul-Enein, James E. Doyle, Lawrence Freedman, Ian Hore-Lacy, Patricia Lewis, Zia Mian, Frank Miller, Harald Müller, Pan Zhenqiang, V. R. Raghavan, Brad Roberts, Scott D. Sagan, Takaya Suto, Jonathan Schell, Bruno Tertrais, Hirofumi Tosaki, Achilles Zaluar, Ernesto Zedillo.

Includes bibliographical references.