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J. Peter Scoblic was a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Endowment’s Nonproliferation Program, where he assessed the impact of ideology on the Bush administration’s ability to combat nuclear terrorism. He is a visiting researcher at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies, and the executive editor of the New Republic, where he has worked since 2003. Before joining the New Republic, Scoblic was the editor of Arms Control Today and a fellow at the New America Foundation. Scoblic's newest book is U.S. vs. Them: How A Half-Century Of Conservatism Has UnderminedAmerica’s Security.
J. Peter Scoblic discusses his new book, "U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security," with E.J. Dionne, Jr., op-ed columnist for The Washington Post.
While there's good reason to believe some countries intend to harness nuclear power toward green ends, there's also good reason to believe that other nations will use global warming as a pretext for less virtuous purposes--namely, to acquire technology that would allow them to build nuclear weapons.
Since the United States destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, there have been Americans who have wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Over the decades they have pushed for an emphasis on cooperation over conflict in U.S. foreign policy, a ban on atomic testing, and limits on atomic arsenals, and of course their ultimate goal: complete disarmament.