'Security Without Nuclear Deterrence' is the latest book by Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy (Retired), a former operator of British nuclear weapons and the first ex-British Navy Commander with nuclear weapon experience to speak out against them. The book is a carefully researched and documented critique which exposes the contradictions and fallacies of nuclear deterrence, and concludes that nuclear weapons undermine rather than enhance security. Positioning nuclear disarmament as a security-building process, Commander Green offers alternative routes to co-operative security without nuclear weapons, based on more humane, lawful and safer strategies to deter aggression. The arguments he raises are critical if there is to be any serious prospect of eliminating nuclear weapons.
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For either the unitiated or the expert,this is an excellent book. For the latter, there is some information here that I have found nowhere else, especially information on the history of the development of nuclear arms by India and Pakistan.
This is a thorough, carefully documented, and thoughtful argument on the need to abolish nuclear weapons.
This is a thorough, carefully documented, and thoughtful argument on the need to abolish nuclear weapons.
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"Security Without Nuclear Deterrence" is a "reductio ad absurdum" of nuclear deterrence doctrine. It exposes the cold-war policy of nuclear deterrence to be based on false premises and fallacious logic, which lead to an absurd conclusion-nuclear weapons bring peace and security.
The orthodoxy of nuclear deterrence has become inculcated in political, military, and civil society to the extent that it is gospel, and criticism of it is near heresy. Yet, Commander Green's passion for debunking the deterrence myth shines through in this book, as it does in his other works. He artfully dissects every aspect of nuclear deterrence and exposes it for what it is - delusional and destabilizing dogma that serves mainly to protect the status quo of the military industrial complex.
"Security Without Nuclear Deterrence" provides an objective analysis of the of the dangerous contradictions and impracticalities of nuclear deterrence and safer alternative security strategies, providing a compendium of well cited, behind the scenes stories. For those interested in arms control, it is an absorbing and informative read. For others, it is a must read!
Bruce A. Roth, Executive Director
Daisy Alliance
Author of "No Time To Kill"
The orthodoxy of nuclear deterrence has become inculcated in political, military, and civil society to the extent that it is gospel, and criticism of it is near heresy. Yet, Commander Green's passion for debunking the deterrence myth shines through in this book, as it does in his other works. He artfully dissects every aspect of nuclear deterrence and exposes it for what it is - delusional and destabilizing dogma that serves mainly to protect the status quo of the military industrial complex.
"Security Without Nuclear Deterrence" provides an objective analysis of the of the dangerous contradictions and impracticalities of nuclear deterrence and safer alternative security strategies, providing a compendium of well cited, behind the scenes stories. For those interested in arms control, it is an absorbing and informative read. For others, it is a must read!
Bruce A. Roth, Executive Director
Daisy Alliance
Author of "No Time To Kill"
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