"The United States, President Obama will come to discover, is a nation addicted to nuclear weapons and the power and prestige, both real and illusory, that these weapons bring. Breaking this addiction will prove extremely difficult. This is especially true given the lack of any real nuclear disarmament policy being in place since the dawn of the nuclear age. The failure of the United States to formulate or implement effective nuclear disarmament policy has placed America and the world on very dangerous ground. The longer America and the world continue to possess nuclear weapons, the greater the likelihood of the nuclear weapons being used. The only way to prevent such a dire outcome is through the abolition, and not reduction or control, of all nuclear weapons. "President Obama, speaking before the crowd in Prague on that bright April 2009 morning, understood this. He was right in noting that in regard to the dream of nuclear abolition, the world should insist that 'Yes, we can.

' But the reality is that being able to do something is no guarantee that it will actually be done. The president, the American people, and the world must know that in order for this dream to become reality, the motto must be changed from 'Yes, we can,' to 'Yes, we must.' This is the vision of a new Prague Spring. One can only hope that this dream not be destroyed with American nuclear-fueled hubris the role of the Soviet tanks in crushing the life from what might be the world's last chance to free itself from the terror of nuclear war." Book jacket.