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 Ward Hayes Wilson is a writer at “the forefront” of debates about the value and utility of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence.Tertrais, Bruno, “Four Straw Men of the Apocalypse,” Survival, 2013.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/ 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,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 in military journals Joint Force Quarterly 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 and Parameters,Ward Hayes Wilson “Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons” Parameters https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3020&context=parameters in foreign policy journals Foreign Policy 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 and International Security,Ward Hayes Wilson. The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima, International Security, 2007. Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine 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."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. 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"Output". Rethinkingnuclearweapons.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-06.

Wilson launched his book Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons at an event at the United Nations in February 2013."UNODA Update - Ward Wilson, author of "Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons" presents his book at the United Nations". Un.org. Retrieved 2014-06-06. He launched his second book It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in 2023."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

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 Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013. Review by Derrin Culp. "Strengthening Nonproliferation", British American Security Information Council, October 2013 "Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons,” Parameters, 2013. "Myth of Nuclear Necessity," op-ed, The New York Times, January 13, 2013. “The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence,” Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2008. “The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons in Light of Hiroshima,” International Security, 2007.

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