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  title info:
    title: Sleepwalking to Armageddon
    sub title: the threat of nuclear annihilation
  name:
    name part: Caldicott, Helen
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: With the worlds attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan and stockpiles of aging weapons unsecured around the globe make a nuclear attack or a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility arguably the biggest threat facing humanity. Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering antinuclear activist Helen Caldicott assembles the worlds leading nuclear scientists and thought leaders to assess the political and scientific dimensions of the threat of nuclear war today. Chapters address the size and distribution of the current global nuclear arsenal, the history and politics of nuclear weapons, the culture of modern-day weapons labs, the militarization of space and the dangers of combining artificial intelligence with nuclear weaponry, as well as a status report on enriched uranium and a shocking analysis of spending on nuclear weapons over the years.
  table of contents: Twenty-first-century nuclear weaponry -- Assessing global catastrophic risk / Seth D. Baum -- Modernization of nuclear weaponry / Hans Kristensen -- Nuclear smoke and the climatic effects of nuclear war / Alan Robock -- Addicted to weapons / Bruce Gagnon -- The plutonium problem / Bob Alvarez -- Nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence / Max Tegmark -- Weapons scientists up close / Hugh Gusterson -- Twenty-first-century nuclear politics -- National politics versus national security / Noam Chomsky -- Escalation watch : four looming flashpoints facing President Trump / Michael Klare -- Nuclear politics / William Hartung -- Ignition points for global catastrophe / Richard Broinowski -- Nuclear weapons : how foreign hotspots could test Trump's finger on the trigger / Julian Borger -- The existential madness of Putin-bashing / Robert Parry -- The sudden German nuke flirtation / Ulrich Kühn -- Solutions -- Law and morality at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons / Ray Acheson -- A new movement to ban nuclear weapons / Tim Wright -- Don't bank on the bomb / Susi Snyder -- Nuclear weapons and possible human extinction : the heroic Marshall Islanders / David Krieger -- Persistent violence and silent suffering: Marshallese migrants in Washington State / Holly Barker -- Adding democracy to nuclear policy / Kennette Benedict.
  note: edited by Helen Caldicott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear warfare
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear weapons
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear disarmament
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear warfare
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
  classification: U263 .S595 2017
  classification: 355.02/17
  identifier: 9781620972465
  identifier: 1620972468
  identifier: 2017004869
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170221
    record change date: 20180214140333.0
    record identifier: in00003984144