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OverviewEver since the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the prospect of nuclear annihilation has haunted the modern world. But as John Mueller reveals in this eye-opening, compellingly argued, and very reassuring book, our obsession with nuclear weapons is unsupported by history, scientific fact, or logic. Examining the entire atomic era, Mueller boldly contends that nuclear weapons have had little impact on history. Although they have inspired overwrought policies and distorted spending priorities, for the most part they have proved to be militarily useless, and a key reason so few countries have taken them up is that they are a spectacular waste of money and scientific talent. Equally important, Atomic Obsession reveals why anxieties about terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons are essentially baseless: a host of practical and organizational difficulties make their likelihood of success almost vanishingly small. Mueller, one of America's most distinguished yet provocative international relations scholars, goes even further, maintaining that our efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons have produced more suffering and violence than the bombs themselves, and that proliferation of the weapons, while not necessarily desirable, is unlikely to be a major danger or to accelerate. The book will certainly make you think. Added bonus: It's immensely fun to read. --Stephen M. Walt, ForeignPolicy.com Meticulously researched and punctuated with a dry wit. Mueller deserves praise for having the guts to shout that the atomic emperor has no clothes. --Arms Control Today Mueller performs an important service in puncturing some of the inflated rhetoric about nuclear weapons...An unusual and fruitful perspective on nuclear history. --Science Magazine Full Product DetailsAuthor: John MuellerPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Country of Publication: United States ISBN: 9780199837090ISBN 10: 0199837090 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 26 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Temporarily unavailable  Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Impact of Nuclear Weapons 1. Effects 2. Overstating the Effects 3. Deterring World War III: Essential Irrelevance 4. Influence on History 5. Influence on Rhetoric, Theorizing, and Budgets Part II. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons 6. Arms Races: Positive and Negative 7. Proliferation: Slow and Substantially Inconsequential 8. The Modest Appeal and Value of Nuclear Weapons 9. Controlling Proliferation 10. Assessing the Costs of the Proliferation Fixation 11. Reconsidering Proliferation Policy Part III. The Atomic Terrorist? 12. Task 13. Likelihood 14. Progress and Interest 15. CapacityReviews<br> His witty and unmerciful intellectual attack on the doomsayers, who have been arguing for the past 50 years that rapid proliferation is just around the corner, that we stand on the brink of a new nuclear age, or that it is a few minutes to midnight, is a refreshing one. --Survival<p><br> The narrative is liberally seasoned with striking facts and a dash of wry humour. --Times Literary Supplement<p><br> This is both a well written book and an important scholarly contribution...Policy makers and their staffs could benefit from this piece. --Choice<p><br> With his rare combination of wit and meticulous scholarship, John Mueller diagnoses that America is paralyzed by atomaphobia and prescribes a fifteen-chapter treatment to help us recognize that we have blown reasonable concerns about weapons of mass destruction and terrorism out of proportion and that many of our policy responses actually make things worse. Atomic Obsession is recommended bed-time reading for nervous Nellies both i Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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