Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow & Director of the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons project
Ward Wilson is a Senior Fellow and director of the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons Project. His principal work is research into the foundations of nuclear weapons thinking and various presentations of new perspectives. His recent book, Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons, is a groundbreaking rethinking of nuclear weapons based on recently uncovered and reanalyzed facts from Cold War archives.
Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, calls Five Myths, "Brilliant, original and important." General B. B. Bell, retired four star U.S. Army general, says, "No matter what your background or expertise, before you say or do anything else regarding 'nukes,' I strongly recommend you read and give serious consideration to the arguments in this terrific work."
Ward has spoken at the State Department, the Pentagon, the U.K. House of Commons, the European Parliament, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Naval War College, and universities including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown, and University of Chicago. He has addressed audiences around the world.
Area of expertise:
Nuclear weapons thinking and theory, international relations, history of war, and international disarmament efforts.
Also by this author:
The Bomb didn't beat Japan...Stalin did, Ward Wilson, Foreign Policy, May 29, 2013
"Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons," Ward Wilson, Parameters 42(4)/43(1) Winter-Spring 2013
"Military Wisdom" Joint Force Quarterly, February 2013
"Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons," Ward Wilson, January 2013
"The Myth of Nuclear Necessity" New York Times, January 2013
"Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons" study commissioned by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, May 2010
"The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence" Nonproliferation Review, November 2008
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