Sleepwalking to Armageddon (eBook)

The world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Helen Caldicott is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. She is the author of The New Nuclear Danger, Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, and Loving This Planet. She divides her time between Australia and the United States.

Part I: 21st Century Nuclear Weaponry 1.Seth Baum – Assessing Catastrophic Risk2.Hans Kristensen - Modernization of Nuclear Weaponry3.Alan Robock – Nuclear Smoke and the Climatic Effects of Nuclear War4.Bruce Gagnon – Addicted to Weapons5.Bob Alvarez –The Plutonium Problem6.Max Tegmark – Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence7.Hugh Gusterson – Weapons Scientists, Up Close Part II: 21st Century Nuclear Politics1.William Hartung – Nuclear Politics2.Noam Chomsky – National Politics Versus National Security3.Robert Parry – The Existential Madness of Putin-BashingPart III: Solutions 1.Ray Acheson – Law and Morality at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons2.Tim Wright – A New Movement to Ban Nuclear Weapons3.Susi Snyder – Don’t Bank on the Bomb4.David Krieger – Nuclear Weapons and Possible Human Extinction: The Heroic Marshall Islanders5.Holly Barker – Persistent Violence and Silent Suffering: Marshallese Migrants in Washington StateContributors include:Robert Alvarez, the Institute for Policy StudiesSeth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risk InstituteNoam ChomskyBruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in SpaceWilliam Hartung, Center for International PolicyHans Kristensen, the Federation of American Scientists Robert Parry, journalist Theodore A. Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MITMax Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT