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Designing Denuclearization - An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Paperback)
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Designing Denuclearization - An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Paperback)
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This work canvasses nuclear weapon abolition, proposals placed on
the table since 1945 and the obstacles and issues which a realistic
program for abolition confronts today. It has an ambitious purpose,
to show that nuclear abolition can and should be placed on the
public agenda.a The author terms it interpretive in that it
incorporates his commentaries, never hiding his reasons and
judgments. It is neither "just the facts" nor "all the facts." It
is an encyclopedia in the original meaning of "a general course of
instruction." He identifies himself with all who pursue the problem
posed by nuclear weapons systematically and with seriousness of
purpose, committed to self-instruction. In another sense, he
writes, this work is a conversation with the Reader. What is needed
to abolish nuclear weapons? His starting-point is this: As long as
nuclear weapons are stockpiled and deployed there is risk of their
use, which would be catastrophic. Abolition, however, is
inconceivable in the absence of a developed and articulated
alternative to the nuclear status quo. Even with that, the politics
of abolition, bringing the governments of the nuclear weapon states
to believe that abolition is in their interest, is the sine qua non
of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. Larkin's text is
written for those, whether practitioners or citizens, interested in
designing and bringing about denuclearization. Abolition cannot be
achieved by political elites in the absence of broad concurrent
public support. Governments, career policy officials and
legislators have chosen to assume responsibility for the public
agenda. They may be askedimust be asked,what they will do to bring
about denuclearization.
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