Price: $25.99

Pages: 240

Publisher: The New Press

Imprint: The New Press

Publication Date: 07 November 2017

ISBN: 9781620972472

Format: eBook

Praise for Sleepwalking to Armageddon:
"The authors, who include scientists, academics, and activists, share their well-informed and frequently fascinating perspectives on various issues in play. . . [T]his succinct collection should be a must-read for government officials, policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens everywhere."
—Publishers Weekly

Praise for Dr. Helen Caldicott:
"Dr. Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor."
—Naomi Klein

The world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Helen Caldicott is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. She is the author of The New Nuclear Danger, Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, and Loving This Planet. She divides her time between Australia and the United States.

Part I: 21st Century Nuclear Weaponry

1. Seth Baum – Assessing Catastrophic Risk
2. Hans Kristensen - Modernization of Nuclear Weaponry
3. Alan Robock – Nuclear Smoke and the Climatic Effects of Nuclear War
4. Bruce Gagnon – Addicted to Weapons
5. Bob Alvarez –The Plutonium Problem
6. Max Tegmark – Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence
7. Hugh Gusterson – Weapons Scientists, Up Close

Part II: 21st Century Nuclear Politics
1. William Hartung – Nuclear Politics
2. Noam Chomsky – National Politics Versus National Security
3. Robert Parry – The Existential Madness of Putin-Bashing

Part III: Solutions
1. Ray Acheson – Law and Morality at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
2. Tim Wright – A New Movement to Ban Nuclear Weapons
3. Susi Snyder – Don’t Bank on the Bomb
4. David Krieger – Nuclear Weapons and Possible Human Extinction: The Heroic Marshall Islanders
5. Holly Barker – Persistent Violence and Silent Suffering: Marshallese Migrants in Washington State

Contributors include:

Robert Alvarez, the Institute for Policy Studies

Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute

Noam Chomsky

Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

William Hartung, Center for International Policy

Hans Kristensen, the Federation of American Scientists

Robert Parry, journalist

Theodore A. Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT

Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT