A World Without Nuclear Weapons

The final chapter heading in the Nuclear Posture Review is “Looking Forward – Toward A World Without Nuclear Weapons”. But of course we don’t need to do that. All we need to do is look back, say, to 1917: Or maybe we could fast-forward to 1939-45: Arms control veteran and National Institute for Public Policy President Keith Payne made this point at the Brookings Institution last week: “Much of the rest of the world sees great value in nuclear weapons,” he said, “because they recall conventional warfare as the destroyer of nations.” Gettysburg, he said, resulted in 50,000 casualties, including 11,000 dead, in three days – with 200-year-old technology. Payne quoted Thomas Schelling : “One might hope that major wars would not happen in a world without nuclear weapons – but it always did.” Where does articulating such thoughts get you today? It gets you called Dr Strangelove by our major media.

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A World Without Nuclear Weapons