Nuclear Disarmament: Obstacles to Banishing the Bomb (Humanity and Security and Global Governance)

Under the direction of Jozef Goldblat, the distinguished arms control specialist, 17 renowned security scholars bring their collected knowledge and experience together in this volume to chart a course for nuclear disarmament. They define the imperative for nuclear disarmament and the arms control prerequisites to bring about such disarmament. Under the direction of Jozef Goldblat, the distinguished arms control specialist, 17 renowned security scholars analyse the linkages between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons of mass destruction, as well as the linkage between conventional and nuclear disarmament. They define the imperative for nuclear disarmament and the prerequisites to bring it about. They survey the conditions for de-nuclearisation region-by-region and identify the political, technological and economic requirements to achieve a nuclear free world "This volume studies the obstacles to nuclear disarmament and the ways to overcome them. Under the direction of Jozef Goldblat, a distinguished arms control specialist, renowned security scholars analyse the prerequisites and conditions for de-nuclaerisation region-by-region and identify the political, technological and economic requirements to achieve a nuclear free world."--Bloomsbury Publishing. This volume studies the obstacles to nuclear disarmament and the ways to overcome them. The contributors define the prerequisites and conditions for de-nuclaerisation region-by-region and identify the political, technological and economic requirements to achieve a nuclear free world. The bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and-so far-the last to be used in combat.