{"product_id":"apocalyptic-crimes-why-nuclear-weapons-are-illegal-and-must-be-abolished-hardback-9781978839342","title":"Apocalyptic Crimes; Why Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished (Hardback) 9781978839342","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eApocalyptic Crimes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWhy Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal and Must Be Abolished\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRonald C. Kramer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978839342\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e292 pages, 4 color and 3 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Kramer brilliantly provides an in-depth, meticulous, and unambiguous critical analysis establishing the immorality and illegality of nuclear weapons and the ominous catastrophic threat they pose to all of humanity and other living species. \u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely must-read given the climate crisis, increased geopolitical tensions, wars, conflicts, and ongoing nuclear aspirations. Kramer elegantly demonstrates that the culture of nuclearism must end and atomic weapons should be abolished, dismantled, and destroyed before the Doomsday Clock clicks on midnight.\" - Dawn L. Rothe (coeditor of State Crime: Current Perspectives) \"As one of few criminologists to warn of the threats posed to humanity by nuclear weapons, Kramer has been a prominent and assiduous voice on the importance of this issue within the discipline for over forty years. In this book, he provides a means of historicizing, conceptualizing, analyzing, and-importantly-challenging contemporary geopolitical apocalyptic crimes. Calling on scholars and the public to take seriously the stockpiling of and threats to use nuclear weapons, this book is a wake-up call for criminology to foreground these contemporary problems as key features of the discipline.\" - Ross McGarry (coauthor of A Criminology of War?)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 2023, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the iconic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight-the closest to midnight, or civilization-ending apocalypse, it has ever been. Designed at the onset of the Cold War amid new fears of atomic weapons, the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic countdown to annihilation. Now, a generation later, the world is more vulnerable than ever to the nuclear weapons it sought to warn against. In \u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e, Ronald C. Kramer reconsiders the immense danger these weapons pose to humanity, examining the use, threat to use, and continued possession of nuclear weapons from a criminological perspective.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Kramer argues that any country holding on to its nuclear arsenal-including the United States-is committing a criminal act. Offering a sharp rebuke to the common claim that nuclear stockpiles serve to deter the escalation of conflict, \u003ci\u003eApocalyptic Crimes \u003c\/i\u003eemphasizes the harm caused by the mere possession of these deadly weapons. It further considers the culpability of political officials, acting as representatives of the state, whose threatening statements about nuclear weapons contain actions or omissions that violate specific international laws. But Kramer also shows how a nuclear apocalypse might be averted and offers a pathway to disarmament. Through critical analysis and a specific criminology of nuclear weapons, Kramer outlines the political actions necessary to rewind the Doomsday Clock and pull the world back from the brink of destruction-before the clock strikes midnight.    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Foreword by Ray Michalowski\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 “\u003cbr\u003eIt is 90 Seconds to Midnight”\u003cbr\u003e: Nuclear Weapons, Apocalyptic Harms, and State Crime\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Nuclear Warfare is Illegal: International Law and Nuclear Weapons\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 The Use of the Atomic Bomb Against Japan and the Normalization of a Geopolitical Crime\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Crimes of Empire: Cold War Nuclear Threats and the Failure of International Controls\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Nuclear Madness, Arms Control Treaties, and the End of the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 After the Cold War: Lost Opportunities for Disarmament, Nuclear Nonproliferation by Force, and the Prague Promise\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 Current Apocalyptic Threats, The American Empire, and a Pathway to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword: Nuclear Death by Raymond J. Michalowski ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e xxi\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations xxv\u003cbr\u003e 1 “\u003cbr\u003eIt Is 90 Seconds to Midnight”\u003cbr\u003e: Nuclear Weapons,\u003cbr\u003e Apocalyptic Harms, and State Crime 1\u003cbr\u003e 2 Nuclear Warfare Is Illegal: International Law\u003cbr\u003e and Nuclear Weapons 23\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Use of the Atomic Bomb against Japan\u003cbr\u003e and the Normalization of a Geopolitical\u003cbr\u003e Crime 51\u003cbr\u003e 4 Crimes of Empire: Cold War Nuclear Threats\u003cbr\u003e and the Failure of International Controls 83\u003cbr\u003e 5 Nuclear Madness, Arms Control Treaties,\u003cbr\u003e and the End of the Cold War 109\u003cbr\u003e 6 After\u003cbr\u003e the Cold War: Lost Opportunities\u003cbr\u003e for Disarmament, Nuclear Nonproliferation\u003cbr\u003e by Force, and the Prague Promise 139\u003cbr\u003e 7 Current Apocalyptic Threats, the American\u003cbr\u003e Empire, and a Pathway to the Abolition of\u003cbr\u003e Nuclear Weapons 177\u003cbr\u003e Notes 213\u003cbr\u003e Index 000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640487047448,"sku":"9781978839342","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/apocalyptic-crimes-why-nuclear-weapons-are-illegal-and-must-be-abolished-hardback-9781978839342","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}