Road map to elimination

The conventional wisdom has always been that a world without nuclear weapons would be dangerously unstable. Drawn by the power of nuclear weapons, nations would constantly be tempted to cheat. I show convincingly that this is not so in "Stable at Zero: Enforcing the Peace in a World Without Nuclear Weapons," a chapter in Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty just out yesterday.

Elements lays out a step by step blueprint for how to eliminate nuclear weapons. It explains why we should eliminate nuclear weapons and how to do it. Written by a panel of experts - including among others Barry Blechman, Steve Fetter, and Hal Feiveson - it has a forward by Former Secretaries of Defense William Perry and Frank Carlucci. Joe Cirincione says, "For decades, proponents of maintaining large nuclear arsenals have rebuffed reductions with claims that a disarmament treaty could never be achieved, verified, or enforced. The experts assembled in "Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty" destroy these fact-free assertions with a full-spectrum analysis of each political and technical obstacle to the security of a world without nuclear weapons and sober suggestions for how to overcome them. It is a how-to book you cannot do without."

The text of the chapter is not yet available on line. You can read more about the book and order one here.