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American nuclear disarmament researcher

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

Ward Hayes Wilson is a writer at “the forefront” of debates about the value and utility of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence. 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.

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. Winner of the $10,000 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge in 2008, 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 and Nonproliferation Review, in military journals Joint Force Quarterly and Parameters, in foreign policy journals Foreign Policy and International Security, and in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Nation.

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

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

Awards and honors

  • 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

See also

References

  1. Tertrais, Bruno, “Four Straw Men of the Apocalypse,” Survival, 2013.
  2. "The nuclear deterrence works fantasy". Daily Times. 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  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. "The deterrent that wasn't - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
  5. "Ward Wilson". europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
  6. "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.
  7. "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.
  8. "Ward Hayes Wilson". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Ward Hayes Wilson “Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons” Parameters https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3020&context=parameters
  12. 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
  13. Ward Hayes Wilson. The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima, International Security, 2007. Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Wilson, Ward (2013-01-14). "Opinion | The Myth of Nuclear Necessity". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  15. Wilson, Ward Hayes (2023-08-03). "Opinion: 'Oppenheimer' only makes it harder to control nuclear weapons". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  16. Wilson, Ward (2017-08-11). "Nuclear Deterrence Will Fail". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
  17. "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.
  18. "Output". Rethinkingnuclearweapons.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  19. "UNODA Update - Ward Wilson, author of "Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons" presents his book at the United Nations". Un.org. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  20. "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
  21. University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "Four Myths About Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, H-Bomb, Deterrence and". cisac.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. "Previous Winners: Doreen & Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Award". James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Retrieved 2024-05-03.

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