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Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense Book

The man who led the United Nations' failed effort to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the late 1990s says the world must make a decision "to survive nuclear weapons or be sentenced by them." Richard Butler describes the current situation in understandably stark terms: "These weapons are the singular human invention capable of destroying the earth and all that lives on it." He believes the planet faces no greater challenge than figuring out how to contain them. Global nonproliferation efforts have succeeded over the last several decades, he writes, but not completely: countries such as India, Pakistan, and possibly Iraq now have access to the bomb. President Bush's plans to build a national missile-defense system are especially misguided, in his view, because they would spur a new arms race. By pushing forward, the United States will ensure "the realization of its own nightmare." Butler proposes a series of arms-control measures--Senate confirmation of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a bilateral agreement between the United States and Russia to reduce their nuclear stockpiles, the creation of an international Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction--but the main draw of Fatal Choice may be its moral fervor. Policymakers, Butler writes, "have a clear choice: to build a world free from the greatest of all threats to life, or to prepare for the next stage of nuclear bondage and terrorism." --John Miller Read More

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  • Product Description

    We face a choice with respect to nuclear weapons - either move safely toward elimination or remain their victim. A forty year effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons is breaking down and teh likely acquisition of these weapons by terrorists is a growing threat. Richard Butler, a well-known and respected voice on the subject argues that we are poised on the verge of a second and much more threatening arms race than the one experienced during the Cold War. This threat is clearly reflected in nuclear weapons development by India, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea. The revival of missile defense will not deal with the problem but rather worsen it. Butler outlines steps that need to be taken to facilitate the right choices on nuclear weapons.

  • 0813339804
  • 9780813339801
  • Richard Butler
  • 4 February 2002
  • Westview Press Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 200
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