Endangered Species How We Can Avoid Mass Destruction and Build a Lasting Peace

Name: Endangered Species How We Can Avoid Mass Destruction and Build a Lasting Peace
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ISBN: 9780061139512

ISBN-10: 0061139513

ISBN-13: 9780061139512

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen M. Younger

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A former nuclear weapons designer discusses the increasing threat of weapons of mass destruction and offers ideas on how to construct the best practical world consistent with our human nature. "I have been in the nuclear weapons business for over twenty years, and I have always been a pacifist." Stephen M. Younger looks into the heart of humankind to present a practical plan for ending mass violence, the scourge of modern times and a threat to our survival as a species. Do our genes condemn us to ever greater acts of barbarism? Do our complex societies, so necessary to modern life, include a fundamental flaw that drives us to periodic wars and genocide? Why has an enduring peace proven…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: The Imperative for Change


Setting the Stage: Human Beings and the Societies We Live In


Do Our Genes Condemn Us to War?


Some Useful Lessons from History


A Realistic Assessment of the World We Live In


The Limits of Choice: How Technology and Culture Will Affect Our Future


Two Technologies That Will Shape the World


How Culture and Ecology Will Limit Our Actions


Why Most Strategic Plans Fail


The Tools of Change: What We Can Do to Prevent Mass Violence


Politics and Diplomacy as Tools for Peace


Economic Measures to Reduce the Probability of Mass Violence


Military Capability to Make and Keep the Peace


The Necessity of Hope