He was less concerned with the power struggle between the US and the Soviet Union than with the radical shift that had taken place: humanity now had the means to bring about its own demise. Despite commitments made in the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to ‘facilitate the cessation of the manufacture of nuclear weapons, the liquidation of all their existing stockpiles, and the elimination from national arsenals of nuclear weapons and the means of their delivery’, those in possession of ‘the bomb’ have never really given disarmament a chance. Current nuclear programmes are shaped by decisions taken in the 2000s, a period of relative stability in relations between major powers, and preceding the war in Ukraine, which has seen Russia threaten to press the red button.
Author: Jean-Marie Collin
Published at: 2025-12-01 21:41:19
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