Wilson argues that nuclear weapon proliferation and its use is the greatest threat to all humanity. She asserts that the choices over the next decade will impact the future of nuclear abolition or expansion. Furthermore, Wilson provides trends that have characterized recent development of nuclear countries, such as that nuclear nations, like Russia and the US, are pouring funds to develop their nuclear arsenal.
Wilson addresses concern that nuclear nations are establishing nuclear alert standpoints, like the ones the US and USSR used in the Cold War, which will reduce the decision period to fire nuclear weapons, increasing the risk of nuclear use through accidents and rogue launches. Tensions between nuclear bearing countries and terrorist