Ward Wilson-- Rejecting Long Held Assumptions about Nuclear Weapons-- They don't work and never did what they were supposed to do.

Winter 2012. Cover story of "Lakare Mot Karnvapen," the Swedish magazine of the Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons. A link to the .pdf version of the magazine is  here .

Ward Wilson

senior fellow at the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies a subsidiary of the  Monterey Institute

interview rough notes-- mostly questions I asked

Why did the Japanese say they surrendered because of the nuclear bombs when there were other reasons?

HOw much does the US spend on Nuclear weapons? 

$5.5 trillion in last 50 years. 

third most high ticket item on budget. 

Are you getting traction, where it counts, in promoting your message, that nuclear weapons did not end world war two?

What are the five myths about nuclear weapons

What's your response to people who say we can't put  the nuclear geni back in the bottle?

How big is the nuclear weapon lobby?

60-70% of Americans think nuclear weapons are dumb. They don't like them.

20 corporations worldwide that make products exclusively for nuclear weapons. 

international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons-- I can,

A lot of our thinking about nuclear weapons is mythical thinking-- 

WE call nuclear battle armageddon or apocalypse--

Apocalypse is an old, universal human myth or prophecy.

Have you speculated what the world would be like without Nuclear weapons

http://www.rethinkingnuclearweapons.org