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Apr 16, 2013ANITRA L FREEMAN rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
In 124 pages, Ward Wilson, a senior fellow at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, calls into question the basic assumptions that have directed nuclear weapon policy (global as well as American) for 65 years. Persuasive, although, as much thought and study as Wilson has put into this topic (30 years) I think there are some nuances that didn't fit into 124 pages. Example: Hiroshima & Nagasaki were not the motivation for Japan's surrender, but an argument can be made that without a face-saving pretext for surrender, Japan would have been forced by its own culture to continue fighting to the last child standing. I intend to read The Second Nuclear Age by Paul Bracken for additional thoughts.