Ward Wilson
Ward Hayes Wilson (born April 26, 1956) is an American researcher who is the executive director of RealistRevolt, a grassroots advocacy organization in the Chicago area. He lives and works in Glenview, Illinois.
Career
[edit]Ward Hayes Wilson is a writer at “the forefront” of debates about the value and utility of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence.[1][2][3][4] He has been a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, BASIC (the British American Security Information Council), and the Federation of American Scientists.[5]
Wilson is best known for his argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.[6] Winner of the $10,000 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge in 2008,[7] Wilson uses realist arguments to challenge existing ideas about nuclear weapons. His arguments have appeared in anti-nuclear journals he Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists[8] and Nonproliferation Review,[9] in military journals Joint Force Quarterly [10] and Parameters,[11] in foreign policy journals Foreign Policy [12] and International Security,[13] and in the New York Times,[14] the Los Angeles Times,[15] and The Nation.[16]
Wilson received a grant in 2010 to write, travel, and speak on nuclear weapons issues.[17] He presented arguments that challenge accepted ideas about nuclear weapons in 23 countries including at the Pentagon; the French National Assembly; the United Nations; the Scottish National Parliament; the U.S. State Department; Harvard; Stanford; Princeton; Georgetown; Yale; the Sorbonne; the U.S. Naval War College; King's College London; Hamburg University; Nagasaki University; University of Pretoria; the Mexican Foreign Ministry; the Belgian Parliament; the National Assembly of Costa Rica; Aberystwyth University, Wales; and Chatham House, London[18]
Wilson launched his book Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons at an event at the United Nations in February 2013.[19] He launched his second book It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in 2023.[20]
Awards and honors
[edit]- RFK Fellow, The Robert Kennedy Memorial Foundation, 1981.[21]
- Doreen and Jim McElvaney Prize, which included a $10,000 award for the best essay on nuclear weapons worldwide in 2008.[22]
Publications
[edit]- Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Review.
- "Strengthening Nonproliferation", British American Security Information Council, October 2013
- "Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons,” Parameters, 2013.
- "Myth of Nuclear Necessity," op-ed, The New York Times, January 13, 2013.
- “The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence,” Nonproliferation Review, 2008.
- “The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima,” International Security, 2007.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Tertrais, Bruno, “Four Straw Men of the Apocalypse,” Survival, 2013.
- ^ "The nuclear deterrence works fantasy". Daily Times. 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ Mitra, Debasish. "Bombing Hiroshima, Nagasaki was a crime". Times of Oman. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714223326/
- ^ "The deterrent that wasn't - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ "Ward Wilson". europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
- ^ "The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs". 2012-08-16. Archived from the original on 2012-08-16. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ "Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge | The Nonproliferation Review (NPR) | James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)". 2014-02-05. Archived from the original on 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ "Ward Hayes Wilson". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ Ward Hayes Wilson. The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence, James Martin Center, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20200407040340/https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/153_wilson.pdf
- ^ Ward Hayes Wilson, "Military Wisdom and Nuclear Weapons” Joint Force Quarterly https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-68/JFQ-68_18-24_Ward.pdf
- ^ Ward Hayes Wilson “Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons” Parameters https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3020&context=parameters
- ^ Ward Hayes Wilson. The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan ... Stalin Did: Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie?, Foreign Policy, May 30, 2013
- ^ Ward Hayes Wilson. The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima, International Security, 2007. Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Wilson, Ward (2013-01-14). "Opinion | The Myth of Nuclear Necessity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ Wilson, Ward Hayes (2023-08-03). "Opinion: 'Oppenheimer' only makes it harder to control nuclear weapons". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ Wilson, Ward (2017-08-11). "Nuclear Deterrence Will Fail". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ "Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow & Director of the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons project | BASIC - British American Security Information Council". Basicint.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
- ^ "Output". Rethinkingnuclearweapons.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
- ^ "UNODA Update - Ward Wilson, author of "Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons" presents his book at the United Nations". Un.org. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
- ^ "UNODA and Permanent Mission of Austria hosted a First Committee Side Event: the book launch of “It is Possible: A future without nuclear weapons” by Ward Wilson” https://disarmament.unoda.org/update/unoda-and-permanent-mission-of-austria-hosted-a-first-committee-side-event-the-book-launch-of-it-is-possible-a-future-without-nuclear-weapons-by-ward-wilson/#:~:text=On%2025%20October%202023,%20the,the%20Executive%20Director%20of%20RealistRevolt
- ^ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Four Myths About Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, H-Bomb, Deterrence and". cisac.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
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