Summary
Ward Hayes Wilson (born April 26, 1956) is the executive director of RealistRevolt, a grassroots advocacy organization in the Chicago area. He lives and works in Glenview, Illinois.
Career edit
Although Wilson was not widely published in the nuclear weapons field until 2007, he has quickly moved into “the forefront” of the debate about the value and utility of nuclear weapons and deterrence.[1][2][3] He is one of five co-authors of a 2010 report sponsored by the Swiss government titled “Devaluing Nuclear Weapons,”[4]
Wilson is best known for his argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan's surrender;[5][6] a prevalent argument which some have recently come to challenge.[7]
Wilson was awarded the top prize ($10,000) in the Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge in 2008 for his “impressive and detailed critique of nuclear deterrence.”[8] He received a substantial grant the following year to write, travel, and speak on nuclear weapons issues.[9] Traveling extensively over the last four years, he has presented arguments that challenge accepted ideas about nuclear weapons before government and public audiences on six continents. Wilson has spoken at the State Department, the Pentagon, the U.K. House of Commons, the European Parliament, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Naval War College, and universities including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown, and University of Chicago.[10] Wilson launched his book, Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in February 2013.[11]
Awards and honors edit
- RFK Fellow, The Robert Kennedy Memorial Foundation, 1981.
- Doreen and Jim McElvaney Prize, 2008. A $10,000 for the best essay on nuclear weapons worldwide in 2008.
Works edit
- Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Review.
- In addition to the Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons book, Wilson is an avid writer of op-eds, journal articles, reports, and briefing papers.[12]
- "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 edit
References edit
- ^ Tertrais, Bruno, “Four Straw Men of the Apocalypse,” Survival, 2013.
- ^ Asghar, Rizwan, The 'nuclear deterrence works' fantasy, Daily Times Pakistan, The nuclear deterrence works fantasy
- ^ Mitra, Debasish. "Bombing Hiroshima, Nagasaki was a crime". Times of Oman. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
- ^ Ken Berry, Patricia Lewis, Benoit Pelopedas, Nikolai Sokov, and Ward Wilson, "Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons.” Archived 2011-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ward Wilson. The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima, International Security, 2007. Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ward 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
- ^ Gareth Cook. The deterrent that wasn’t, The Boston Globe, August 7, 2011.
- ^ Ward Wilson. The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence, James Martin Center, 2008
- ^ "Doreen & Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge". Archived from the original on 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "UNODA Update - Ward Wilson, author of "Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons" presents his book at the United Nations". Un.org. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
- ^ "Output". Rethinkingnuclearweapons.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
External links edit
- Ward Wilson, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Ward Wilson, author of “Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons” presents his book at the United Nations, UNODA
- Interview with Ward Wilson, author, “5 Myths of Nuclear Weapons”, July 22, 2019
- RealistRevolt, a project by Ward Wilson