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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.[citation needed]

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.[5] Winner of the $10,000 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge in 2008,[6] 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 [7] and Nonproliferation Review,[8] in military journals Joint Force Quarterly [9] and Parameters,[10] in foreign policy journals Foreign Policy [11] and International Security,[12] and in the New York Times,[13] the Los Angeles Times,[14] and The Nation.[15]

Wilson received a grant in 2010 to write, travel, and speak on nuclear weapons issues.[16] 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[17]

Wilson launched his book Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons at an event at the United Nations in February 2013.[18] He launched his second book It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in 2023.[19]

Awards and honors edit

  • RFK Fellow, The Robert Kennedy Memorial Foundation, 1981.
  • Doreen and Jim McElvaney Prize, which included a $10,000 award for the best essay on nuclear weapons worldwide in 2008.

Publications edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Tertrais, Bruno, “Four Straw Men of the Apocalypse,” Survival, 2013.
  2. ^ Asghar, Rizwan, The 'nuclear deterrence works' fantasy, Daily Times Pakistan. https://dailytimes.com.pk/106162/the-nuclear-deterrence-works-fantasy/#google_vignette
  3. ^ 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/
  4. ^ Gareth Cook. The deterrent that wasn’t, The Boston Globe, August 7, 2011. https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2011/08/15/the-deterrent-that-wasn/ye2XDdXK3qOcYmcQz9EDfJ/story.html
  5. ^ Ward Hayes Wilson. The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima, International Security, 2007. Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20120816232147/http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/855/winning_weapon_rethinking_nuclear_weapons_in_light_of_hiroshima.html
  6. ^ "Doreen & Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge". Archived from the original on 2014-02-05. Retrieved 2014-02-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20140205060454/http://cns.miis.edu/npr/challenge.htm
  7. ^ https://thebulletin.org/biography/ward-hayes-wilson/
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ Ward Hayes Wilson “Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons” Parameters https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3020&context=parameters
  11. ^ 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
  12. ^ Ward Hayes Wilson. The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima, International Security, 2007. Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ ^Ward Hayes Wilson “The Myth of Nuclear Necessity” The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/opinion/the-myth-of-nuclear-necessity.html
  14. ^ Ward Hayes Wilson “‘Oppenheimer’ only makes it harder to control nuclear weapons’ The Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-03/movie-oppenheimer-nuclear-weapons-control
  15. ^ Ward Hayes Wilson “Nuclear Deterrence Will Fail” The Nation, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nuclear-deterrence-will-fail/
  16. ^ "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.
  17. ^ "Output". Rethinkingnuclearweapons.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  18. ^ "UNODA Update - Ward Wilson, author of "Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons" presents his book at the United Nations". Un.org. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  19. ^ "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

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