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A former nuclear weapons designer and head of nuclear weapons research at Los Alamos, Stephen M. Younger delivers an insightful and urgent inquisition on the role of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century. Does the United States need a massive atomic arsenal in an era of precision bombs and missile defense? Under what circumstances might we use nuclear weapons? And how does the proliferation of nuclear weapons by North Korea and Iran affect America's nuclear policy? With his deep understanding of the technology and politics of nuclear arms, Younger challenges us to join a new debate on the future of the ultimate weapon.
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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.
From a designer of nuclear weapons, this primer discusses the history, strategic rationales, and technical and industrial requirements of America’s maintenance of a nuclear arsenal. As weighty as these topics are, Younger writes clearly about them for the public audience. Dispelling misconceptions about nuclear weapons, Younger discusses how hard, as an engineering matter, it is for a country’s nuclear experts to detonate a bomb and to have absolute confidence that the bombs it manufactures will work reliably, if ever needed. If this sounds cold-blooded, Younger starts with the premise that the bomb cannot be wished away and that the dilemmas of its existence require rational consideration of the minimum number that the U.S. should keep for safety in an unpredictable international environment. Reviewing numbers from zero up to tens of thousands, Younger settles on the 1,000 range, arguing that even that level would necessitate a revival of the country’s nuclear complex. For lay readers, this is an indispensable guide to the science and strategy of nuclear weapons. --Gilbert Taylor
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