Endangered Species: How We Can Avoid Mass Destruction and Build A Lasting Peace

Younger, stephen M.

ISBN 10: 0061139513 / ISBN 13: 9780061139512

Edité par Ecco Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2007

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• Titre: Endangered Species: How We Can Avoid Mass Destruction and Build A Lasting Peace
• Éditeur: Ecco Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0061139513
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780061139512
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

A former nuclear weapons designer discusses the increasing threat of weapons of mass destruction and offers ideas on how to construct the best practical world consistent with our human nature.

"I have been in the nuclear weapons business for over twenty years, and I have always been a pacifist." Stephen M. Younger looks into the heart of humankind to present a practical plan for ending mass violence, the scourge of modern times and a threat to our survival as a species. Do our genes condemn us to ever greater acts of barbarism? Do our complex societies, so necessary to modern life, include a fundamental flaw that drives us to periodic wars and genocide? Why has an enduring peace proven so elusive?

Younger understands, as few others can, our potential for violence. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction means that any nation, group, or even individual could cause unimaginable carnage. And the accelerating pace of communications and transportation mean that things can happen faster than we can think about them. Looking across our knowledge of psychology, history, politics, and technology, Younger presents a convincing argument that we can escape our spiral into global destruction. But we haven’t a moment to lose.

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen M. Younger is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He recently retired as a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was in charge of nuclear weapons research and development. From 2001 to 2004, he was director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense. He lives in Las Vegas.