Ward Hayes Wilson is one of the most original minds working on nuclear weapons policy today. His first scholarly article was published in the foremost security studies journal in the world — Harvard’s International Security. His next article won the 2008 McElvaney Prize for the best essay on nuclear disarmament. His work has shaken the foundations of the nuclear weapons debate. He showed that atomic bombs did not force Japan to surrender and has challenged both the origins and efficacy of nuclear deterrence. Using fundamental challenges to established nuclear weapons thinking, he has created an entirely new approach to eliminating nuclear weapons.

He has spoken in 23 countries, at the Pentagon, the State Department, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Georgetown, the Naval War College, the Sorbonne, Kings College London, Nagasaki University and many others. He bested Sir Lawrence Freedman in a Chatham House debate and turned a pre-debate majority in favor of nuclear weapons at the Cambridge Union into a three to one drubbing against.

His writing reaches across ideological boundaries. It has appeared in anti-nuclear journals like The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Nonproliferation Review, military journals like Parameters, Joint Force Quarterly and Revue de Défense Nationale, foreign policy journals like Survival and Foreign Policy, as well as in news media like the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and others.

His book It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons, has been endorsed by world leaders, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, four-star generals, physicists, religious leaders, UN officials, activists and others. Richard Rhodes calls it a “stunning, breakthrough work.” Activist Emma Pike says, “If you only ever read one book about nuclear weapons, let it be this one. Easy to read, meticulously well-reasoned, it has an almost disarmingly straightforward answer for every conceivable challenge to the idea that a future free from nuclear weapons can exist. This guidebook for eliminating nuclear weapons will give even the most resolute cynic reason to hope that it is, indeed, possible.”

His book, Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, was endorsed by two Pulitzer-Prize-winning historians of nuclear weapons, recommended by four-star generals, praised by a former head of state and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and described as “brilliant, original, and important.”

Ward has published articles in anti-nuclear journals like The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Nonproliferation Review, in military journals like Joint Force Quarterly, Parameters, and Revue de Défense Nationale, in foreign policy journals like Survival, Foreign Policy, and Harvard’s International Security, in Ethics and International Affairs, The Diplomat, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, UPI, The Nashville Tennessean,  and others. He has also been published overseas in France’s Slate, Costa Rica’s Diario Extra, Norway’s Dagbladet and Dagsavisen, and others.