Lecture by Ward Wilson - "Nuclear Weapons: Six Fundamental Challenges to the Current Consensus?" 1 November 2010

Ward Wilson, Senior Fellow at James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, will give a talk entitled "Nuclear Weapons: Six Fundamental Challenges to the Current Consensus?"

The DDMI is pleased to help promote and host a talk by Mr. Wilson at 10:00 am, 1 November, in the Main Hall of the International Politics Building, Aberystwyth University. Ward Wilson's work focuses on the usefulness of nuclear weapons. He is attempting to use pragmatic arguments to show that nuclear weapons are not very useful - even if one had a monopoly.

He has published in International Security, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nonproliferation Review, the Chicago Tribune, Dissent and elsewhere. In 2008, Mr. Wilson won the Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Essay Challenge for the "most outstanding essay on nonproliferation" with the paper "The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence." He runs the site "Rethinking Nuclear Weapons."