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Imagination and Nuclear Weapons

Krieger, David
http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/09/imagination-and-nuclear-weapons/Imagination and Nuclear Weapons

Publisher:  Counterpunch
Date Written:  09/05/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

Imagining the horror of nuclear war is not enough to prevent it. Governments with nuclear weapons must be forced to disarm.

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In our current world, bristling with nuclear weapons and continuous nuclear threat, we stand at the brink of the nuclear precipice. The best case scenario from the precipice, short of beginning a process of abolishing nuclear arms, is that we have the great good fortune to avoid crossing the line into nuclear war and blindly continue to pour obscene amounts of money into modernizing nuclear arsenals, while failing to meet the basic human needs of a large portion of the world’s population....

What steps would need to be taken to realize the goal of nuclear abolition?

First, we would need a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.Such a treaty was agreed to in 2017 by a majority of countries in the United Nations, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The treaty is now in the process of being ratified and will enter into force when ratified by 50 countries. Unfortunately and predictably, none of the nine nuclear-armed countries have supported the TPNW, and many have been overtly hostile to the treaty.
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