Ward Hayes Wilson (born April 26, 1956) is an American researcher who is the executive director of RealistRevolt, a grassroots advocacy organization in the Chicago area. He lives and works in Glenview, Illinois.
Ward Hayes Wilson is a writer at “the forefront” of debates about the value and utility of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence. [1] [2] [3] [4] He has been a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, BASIC (the British American Security Information Council), and the Federation of American Scientists. [5]
Wilson is best known for his argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not force Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. [6] Winner of the $10,000 Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge in 2008, [7] Wilson uses realist arguments to challenge existing ideas about nuclear weapons. His arguments have appeared in anti-nuclear journals he Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [8] and Nonproliferation Review, [9] in military journals Joint Force Quarterly [10] and Parameters, [11] in foreign policy journals Foreign Policy [12] and International Security, [13] and in the New York Times, [14] the Los Angeles Times, [15] and The Nation. [16]
Wilson received a grant in 2010 to write, travel, and speak on nuclear weapons issues. [17] He presented arguments that challenge accepted ideas about nuclear weapons in 23 countries including at the Pentagon; the French National Assembly; the United Nations; the Scottish National Parliament; the U.S. State Department; Harvard; Stanford; Princeton; Georgetown; Yale; the Sorbonne; the U.S. Naval War College; King's College London; Hamburg University; Nagasaki University; University of Pretoria; the Mexican Foreign Ministry; the Belgian Parliament; the National Assembly of Costa Rica; Aberystwyth University, Wales; and Chatham House, London [18]
Wilson launched his book Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons at an event at the United Nations in February 2013. [19] He launched his second book It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in 2023. [20]
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