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NUCLEAR WAR: HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, and THE INCENTIVIZATION OF WORLD PEACE – PAPERBACK

Raymond G. Wilson

Format:  PaperBack
Published Date:  June 13, 2026
Pages:  280
ISBN: 979-8-90000-236-1

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My explorations began in 1959, initially, teaching high school physics students how to protect themselves in the event of nuclear “exchanges” with the Soviet Union. (You were out of luck if did not enroll in physics.) Later, this venture continued whenever my physics students at Illinois Wesleyan University encountered nuclear phenomena. When the United States initiated the world’s first
nuclear war over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and at Trinity, they created the largest releases of energy ever produced by man on this planet. Those were small and primitive nuclear bombs; today the average weapon is “some” 10-times more powerful. Some of the world’s bombs release more than 1000 times the energy of those first primitive “gadgets.” It was very useful for physics students to understand this (see Chapters 7 & 8). Something was terribly wrong. In the five decades following 1945 the world was creating on average the equivalent of 60 Hiroshima nuclear bombs, every day of those 50 years; 60 on every one of those 18,250 days. This was made possible by the creation of the larger hydrogen fusion bombs.

Raymond G. Wilson

Raymond Wilson is an emeritus associate professor of Physics who has taught about nuclear physics, Hiroshima and Nagasaki for 53 years. He has spent 18 summers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, exploring, meeting people, learning, and writing about the nuclear catastrophes; aided by his super-helpful wife, Akiko. He created a physics course in 1979, “Problems of Nuclear Disarmament” that became quite popular; taught it for 33 years, stopping at age 80. See “Hiroshima photo-panoramas” at Amazon.com.

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    What this book is about.
    Yes, this book contains photos of victims of nuclear war. However, this book also contains a plan for world
    peace and the elimination of all wars.
    A plan or strategy is proposed that, if adopted: would put “everyone” back to work; bring peace and stability;
    end war-sacrificed lives; ensure satisfactory industrial profits, growth and cooperation; and would allow
    people to return to peaceful opportunity-laden homelands. This workable moral strategy, for decades or
    centuries to come, may be the only approach by which people of the Less Developed World and others, in
    peace, without war, can become masters of their own nation, can create a sensible path to their own peaceful
    destinies as people of so many other nations have done. This workable moral strategy picks up where
    Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Naomi Shohno left off. It exports no United States’ or other nations’ money.
    It prevents suicidal-self-inflicted annihilation via nuclear war, via any war. Without acting on a plan such as
    this the future of humanity remains very uncertain. It is affordable.
    (“moral”— concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human
    character.)
    I will hazard to believe that there are more than 7.2 Billion people on this Earth who would fully support the
    implementation of this plan once they learned of it and understood it. So “Look Out” naysayers! Get out of
    the way.
    Do you think you would be part of the 7.2 billion? I invite you to join me in this exploration of realities
    for peace in this world.
    Ray Wilson, Normal, IL, November, 2024

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