Description: "It is imperative to understand how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers might actually wind up exacerbating them"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: ENDORSEMENTS
"Atomic Backfires is the best of policy-relevant research from an all-star cast of the best new minds in the field. Its contributors use history and theory to identify past policy failures in order to avoid future mistakes in our dangerous new nuclear world."--Vipin Narang, Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Atomic Backfires offers provocative insights into the pitfalls of nuclear statecraft. As the challenges of the current nuclear age are becoming increasingly complex, and the stakes remain high, these lessons learned from past experiences could not be more timely."
--Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Professor of War Studies, King's College London "The impressive analyses in Atomic Backfires demonstrate that the road to hell in nuclear policy--from negotiating arms control to implementing economic sanctions to issuing military threats--is sometimes paved with good intentions. Leaders and analysts ignore these findings at their own peril."
--Keir Lieber, Professor of Foreign Service and Government, Georgetown University "The lively collection of essays edited by Herzog, Arceneaux, and Petrovics focuses on policies that help prevent nuclear war."
--Foreign Affairs