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Author: David Krieger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9781412810364
ISBN 10: 1412810361
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 15 August 2009
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
An invaluable resource for anyone who cares about the abolition of nuclear weapons--one of the pivotal problems of our age. --John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate I am confident that this book will make an important contribution to breaking through the current deadlock on the nuclear issue by offering new ways of thinking and new policy options. --Daisaku Ikeda, Founder, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
<p> This book examines one of the greatest challenges of our time, the nuclear weapons threat to all Creation, and provides hope and a reasoned pathway to a more secure future. Its message is more than timely; it is urgent. --Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu An invaluable resource for anyone who cares about the abolition of nuclear weapons--one of the pivotal problems of our age. --John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate I am confident that this book will make an important contribution to breaking through the current deadlock on the nuclear issue by offering new ways of thinking and new policy options. --Daisaku Ikeda, Founder, Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research An invaluable volume for all those who take seriously President Obama's call for a world free of nuclear weapons. The experts assembled here are convincing that a prudent road forward exists, and that it must be taken as a matter of urgency to ensure a positive human future. --Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice, Princeton University David Krieger, who has worked long in this field, has assembled in this volume a range of information which is directly relevant to the practical task of securing a world free of nuclear weapons. We need urgently to reach this target if civilization is to survive. --Judge Christopher G. Weeramantry, former vice president of the International Court of Justice
Author Information
David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and has served as president of the Foundation since 1982. Krieger has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia on issues of peace, security, international law, and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He is the author or editor of more than 15 books and hundreds of articles and book chapters.
