The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (Hardcover)

List of Acronyms

I. The Challenge of Abolition
1. The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
David Krieger
2. Abolition of Nuclear Weapons:
Political Apathy and a Possible Way Ahead
Laxminarayan Ramdas
3. Abandoning Disarmament? The New
Nuclear Nonproliferation Paradigms
Wade L. Huntley

II. Historical Perspectives
4. Roots of the Upcoming Nuclear Crisis
Daniel Ellsberg
5. The Relationship between Nuclear
Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation
Sverre Lodgaard

III. The Role of International Law
6. International Law, Nuclear Weapons,
and Twenty-First Century Insecurity
Ved P. Nanda
7. Nuclear Weapons and Future Justice
David Krieger

IV. Obstacles to Abolition
8. Putting Nuclear Weapons in Context:
The Hidden Architecture of U.S. Militarism
Jacqueline Cabasso
9. The New U.S. Doctrine of Preemptive
Warfare and Its Implications for Nuclear
Deterrence and Disarmament
Erika Simpson
10. The United States and the Undermining
of the Nonproliferation Regime
Stephen Zunes

V. The Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
11. A Nuclear Weapons Convention: Path
to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
Jurgen Scheffran
12. The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
Ronald McCoy

VI. Citizen Empowerment
13. Overcoming the Politics of Fear: Citizen
Empowerment and the Abolition of NuclearWeapons
Kevin P. Clements
14. A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Douglas Roche

VII. Beyond Abolition
15. Sovereignty in a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Douglas B. Shaw
16. Nuclear Disarmament and General and
Complete Disarmament
Randy Rydell

Appendices

Appendix A. Confronting the Desire to Arm: Josei
Toda's Declaration for the Abolition of NuclearWeapons
Tatsushi Arai

Appendix B. Remember Your Duty to Humanity:
Joseph Rotblat and Nuclear Weapons Abolition
David Krieger

Appendix C. Thirteen Practical Steps for Nuclear
Disarmament (Excerpt from the Final Document
of the 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference)
Contributors
Index