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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons book cover

1st Edition

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

By George Perkovich, James Acton Copyright 2008
130 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Nuclear disarmament is firmly back on the international agenda. But almost all current thinking on the subject is focused on the process of reducing the number of weapons from thousands to hundreds. This rigorous analysis examines the challenges that exist to abolishing nuclear weapons completely, and suggests what can be done now to start overcoming them. The paper argues that the... Read more
Glossary, Introduction, Chapter One Establishing Political Conditions to Enhance the Feasibility of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, Chapter Two Verifying the Transition to Zero, Chapter Three Managing the Nuclear Industry in a World without Nuclear Weapons, Chapter Four Enforcement, Chapter Five Hedging and Managing Nuclear Expertise in the Transition to Zero and After, Appendix Key Suggestions and Questions, Notes

Biography

George Perkovich is a vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of its non-proliferation programme. He is the author of the award-winning India's Nuclear Bomb (Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2001 edition) and lead author of Universal Compliance (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005). He has testified on nuclear affairs before the US Senate and House of Representatives and has participated in numerous governmental and non-governmental multinational initiatives to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

James M. Acton, a physicist by training, was a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London until August 2008. Before that he was the science and technology researcher at the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC). His research to date has focused on IAEA safeguards and, while at VERTIC, he participated in the UK-Norway dialogue on verifying nuclear disarmament. He has published in a number of journals and newspapers, including Survival, the Nonproliferation Review and the New York Times.

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