Prevention, Not Intervention: Curbing the New Nuclear Threat
Author(s)
Hartung, William D.
Abstract
The author criticizes President Bush’s anti-nuclearism as a muscular affair, grounded in the unilateralist credo of “peace through strength.” He instead suggests that keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of aggressive regimes and terrorist groups will require the use of concerted, consistent international diplomacy. Specifically, it will involve strengthening, rather than rejecting, the existing network of treaties and bilateral agreements that have kept nuclear weapons from becoming a far more pervasive problem. It will also require the systematic reduction of global stores of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials to the lowest possible levels.
