Volume 54, Number 4 · March 15, 2007
Hurry Up Please It's Time
By Jason Epstein
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
by Joseph Cirincione
Columbia University Press, 224 pp., $27.50
According to Robert McNamara, quoted with approval by Joseph Cirincione in his invaluable new book, Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, the continued possession of large nuclear arsenals by the US and its NATO allies is 'insane...immoral, militarily unnecessary and destructive of the non-proliferation regime.' Mr. McNamara was referring to the failure of the original nuclear states to abide at this late date by their commitment under the Non-Proliferation Treaty negotiated in 1968 to agree to dispose of their nuclear weapons.
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