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A review by modernstoic
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump by William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
5.0
Nuclear weapons are something that most people have accepted as something that is here to stay. We have grow complacent with the status quo.
The authors outlines how WMD came into being, the history of WMD in Washington & Moscow/Soviet Union, the treaties/deals struck to reduce WMD, and the golden opportunities to reduce nuclear war that were never reached.
No president have ever behaved in a perfect way regarding WMD, so each president is criticized (constructively imo) over their policies (or lack of). In this book Trump is criticized more harshly. I'm not educated enough on this topic to know if this was fair or not, but it is something to note.
This book has a fair criticism of USA's current/past behavior/policy regarding WMD (missile defense, etc). On top of that, it outlines what should be done instead in a simple clear way.
It unfortunately is easy to manipulate uneducated people to support policies that are good on the surface, but terrible in reality (such as Anti ballistic missile defense, etc). Some good policies are counterintuitive (removing all ICBMs). To compound this, nuclear war is still very unlikely, so people get complacent and they don't care. To get effective changes that makes the world safer also requires an educated (educated on WMD), dedicated, and popular president who is willing to go against the flow. However, anything that increase the possibility of nuclear holocaust should receive some focused attention from the public.
I highly recommend this book.
The authors outlines how WMD came into being, the history of WMD in Washington & Moscow/Soviet Union, the treaties/deals struck to reduce WMD, and the golden opportunities to reduce nuclear war that were never reached.
No president have ever behaved in a perfect way regarding WMD, so each president is criticized (constructively imo) over their policies (or lack of). In this book Trump is criticized more harshly. I'm not educated enough on this topic to know if this was fair or not, but it is something to note.
This book has a fair criticism of USA's current/past behavior/policy regarding WMD (missile defense, etc). On top of that, it outlines what should be done instead in a simple clear way.
It unfortunately is easy to manipulate uneducated people to support policies that are good on the surface, but terrible in reality (such as Anti ballistic missile defense, etc). Some good policies are counterintuitive (removing all ICBMs). To compound this, nuclear war is still very unlikely, so people get complacent and they don't care. To get effective changes that makes the world safer also requires an educated (educated on WMD), dedicated, and popular president who is willing to go against the flow. However, anything that increase the possibility of nuclear holocaust should receive some focused attention from the public.
I highly recommend this book.