Part I: 21st Century Nuclear Weaponry



1. Seth Baum - Assessing Catastrophic Risk

2. Hans Kristensen - Modernization of Nuclear Weaponry

3. Alan Robock - Nuclear Smoke and the Climatic Effects of Nuclear War

4. Bruce Gagnon - Addicted to Weapons

5. Bob Alvarez -The Plutonium Problem

6. Max Tegmark - Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence

7. Hugh Gusterson - Weapons Scientists, Up Close



Part II: 21st Century Nuclear Politics

1. William Hartung - Nuclear Politics

2. Noam Chomsky - National Politics Versus National Security

3. Robert Parry - The Existential Madness of Putin-Bashing



Part III: Solutions

1. Ray Acheson - Law and Morality at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

2. Tim Wright - A New Movement to Ban Nuclear Weapons

3. Susi Snyder - Don't Bank on the Bomb

4. David Krieger - Nuclear Weapons and Possible Human Extinction: The Heroic Marshall Islanders

5. Holly Barker - Persistent Violence and Silent Suffering: Marshallese Migrants in Washington State



Contributors include:

• Robert Alvarez, the Institute for Policy Studies
  
  
• Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
  
  
• Noam Chomsky
  
  
• Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
  
  
• William Hartung, Center for International Policy
  
  
• Hans Kristensen, the Federation of American Scientists
  
  
• Robert Parry, journalist
  
  
• Theodore A. Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT
  
  
• Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT