Description: Recent debates on nuclear weapons have focused overwhelmingly on nonproliferation dynamics. Slaying the Nuclear Dragon instead analyzes current nuclear disarmament dynamics. Examining the political, state-level factors that drive and stall progress, contributors highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by proponents of disarmament.
Brief description: DAVID SANTORO is a senior fellow for nonproliferation and disarmament at Pacific Forum CSIS. He is the author of Treating Weapons Proliferation: An Oncological Approach to the Spread of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Technology.
Review Quotes:
We need this book. Ogilvie-White and Santoro provide a timely, comprehensive analysis of how current threats are driving disarmament activists and hard-nosed strategists towards a common agenda. Arms control is the new realism. Professors and policymakers will benefit from their detailed, country-by-country assessment of the trends and challenges in the new nuclear security agenda.
--Joseph Cirincione "president of the Ploughshares Fund"