In 2002, Dr. Hans Blix, then chief UN weapons inspector, lead his team on a search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Until March 2003, when the United States invadesd Iraq, he maintained the country had no WMDs. History proved him right.
For more than forty years Dr. Blix has worked on global disarmament. Looking back at post-world War II efforts against the use of nuclear weapons in this book, he documents the retreat from commitments by nuclear powers and the continuingdevelopment of new types of nuclear weapons, all justified by the world's powers as a defense against the threat of nuclear attck from rogue states and terrorists.