CRAWLING TOWARD NUCLEAR ZERO

Abstract

Getting to Zero: The Path to Nuclear Disarmament, Catherine M. Kelleher and Judith Reppy, eds., Stanford University Press, 2011. 422 pages, $27.95.

Keywords:

• Nuclear disarmament
• nuclear weapons
• global zero

Notes

1. Barack Obama, “Remarks by President Barack Obama in Prague as Delivered,” White House, April 5, 2009, <www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-By-President-Barack-Obama-In-Prague-As-Delivered/>.

2. “Final Joint Press Statement,” First P5 Follow-up Meeting to the NPT Review Conference, Paris, June 30–July 1, 2011, <ukunarmscontrol.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/531358282/p5followup-nptrevcon>.

3. Barry M. Blechman and Alexander K. Bollfrass, eds., Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty and National Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament (Washington, DC: Stimson, 2010); Barry M. Blechman, Unblocking the Road to Zero (Washington, DC: Stimson, 2009).

4. We had “Ban the Bomb” in the 1950s, the “Nuclear Freeze” in the early 1980s, and “Prague Spring” in 2009—it seems they come in roughly thirty-year cycles.