%0 Journal Article %T Myth, Hiroshima and Fear: How we Overestimated the Usefulness of the Bomb %A Ward Wilson %J Cadmus %D 2012 %I Risk Institute, Trieste- Geneva %X Recent evidence from World War II and the Cold War shows that nuclear weapons are far less useful as military and political tools than has been believed. Far from giving a madman the power to conquer the world, nuclear weapons are clumsy, dangerous technology with very few real uses ¡ª even if you have a monopoly. %U http://www.cadmusjournal.org/article/issue-5/myth-hiroshima-and-fear-how-we-overestimated-usefulness-bomb