Apocalyptic Crimes

RONALD C. KRAMER is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University. His books include Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes (2020) and State-Corporate Crime (2006) from Rutgers University Press. Kramer received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Critical Criminology-American Society of Criminology, and Outstanding Teaching and Distinguished Scholarship Awards-Michigan Sociological Association.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ray Michalowski
Chapter 1 “It is 90 Seconds to Midnight”: Nuclear Weapons, Apocalyptic Harms, and
State Crime
Chapter 2 Nuclear Warfare is Illegal: International Law and Nuclear Weapons
Chapter 3 The Use of the Atomic Bomb Against Japan and the Normalization of a
Geopolitical Crime
Chapter 4 Crimes of Empire: Cold War Nuclear Threats and the Failure of International
Controls
Chapter 5 Nuclear Madness, Arms Control Treaties, and the End of the Cold War
Chapter 6 After the Cold War: Lost Opportunities for Disarmament, Nuclear
Nonproliferation by Force, and the Prague Promise
Chapter 7 Current Apocalyptic Threats, The American Empire, and a Pathway to the
Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
List of Abbreviations
Index

Foreword: Nuclear Death by Raymond J. Michalowski ix
Preface and Acknowledgments
xxi
List of Abbreviations xxv
1 “It Is 90 Seconds to Midnight”: Nuclear Weapons,
Apocalyptic Harms, and State Crime 1
2 Nuclear Warfare Is Illegal: International Law
and Nuclear Weapons 23
3 The Use of the Atomic Bomb against Japan
and the Normalization of a Geopolitical
Crime 51
4 Crimes of Empire: Cold War Nuclear Threats
and the Failure of International Controls 83
5 Nuclear Madness, Arms Control Treaties,
and the End of the Cold War 109
6 After
the Cold War: Lost Opportunities
for Disarmament, Nuclear Nonproliferation
by Force, and the Prague Promise 139
7 Current Apocalyptic Threats, the American
Empire, and a Pathway to the Abolition of
Nuclear Weapons 177
Notes 213
Index 000