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Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters
Hans Blix
Mit
May 2008
On Sale: April 30, 2008
112 pages
ISBN: 0262026449
EAN: 9780262026444
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In 2002 Dr. Hans Blix, then chief United Nations weapons
inspector, lead his team on a search for weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. Before the United States went to war
with Iraq the next March, he maintained there were no WMD in
Iraq. History proved him right. For more than forty years Dr. Blix has worked on global
disarmament, and with this new book he renews the call for
nuclear nonproliferation. His interests, though, go beyond
stemming the threat of nuclear attack from rogue states and
terrorists. It is not, he argues, a recipe for success for
nuclear states to tell the rest of the world that it must
stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim
are indispensable. We will never be able to convince rogue
states to halt the pursuit of nuclear weapons programs
unless we take the lead in a new nonproliferation and
disarmament movement. Looking back at the UN post-World War II efforts against the
use of nuclear weapons, Blix documents the retreat from
early commitments by nuclear powers, most alarmingly from
pledges against first use and toward programs to develop new
types of nuclear weapons. He urges us to revive these
efforts, and that the world's powers also look at issues of
global disarmament and security as pieces of the same
puzzle. Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters includes specific
suggestions--how the UN can set the stage for a credible
multilateral disarmament and nonproliferation process; what
kind of treaties would be most helpful--and recommendations
for regional policy, including providing the Middle East
with enriched uranium for civilian nuclear power production
but not allowing uranium enrichment there.
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