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<em>Getting to Zero: Is Pursuing a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Too Difficult? Too Dangerous? Too Distracting?</em>

A man stands by a fireplace in what was a residential neighbrhood in Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

Getting to Zero: Is Pursuing a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Too Difficult? Too Dangerous? Too Distracting?

Discussion Paper 98-24, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Author: John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Science, Technology, and Public Policy; Managing the Atom

 

NOTE

A somewhat shortened version of this essay will appear in the book, Ending War: The Force of Reason, a book celebrating the 90th birthday of Joseph Rotblat, edited by Maxwell Bruce and Tom Milne, MacMillan (London), 1999.

 

 

John P. Holdren sorts out some of the conceptual and terminological ambiguities about the meaning of "zero" nuclear weapons in this paper.

 

 

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For Academic Citation:

Holdren, John P. "Getting to Zero: Is Pursuing a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Too Difficult? Too Dangerous? Too Distracting?." Discussion Paper 98-24, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, April 1998.

Document Length: 49 pp.

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