PART 1 ‘What is the risk of a global nuclear catastrophe resulting from human or computer error?’
PART 4 ‘What are the real blocks to progress on nuclear disarmament?’
PART 2 ‘What is the ‘fatal flaw’ in nuclear deterrence strategy?’
PART 3 ‘Is the elimination of nuclear weapons a realistic possibility?’
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‘ We know that any use of nuclear
weapons will disrupt society in
dramatic ways, but few recognise that
a mere 100 blasts could push tons of
material into the atmosphere, causing
a drop in climate and massive famine
sufficient to kill billions from
starvation and render civilisation a
meaningless dream of the past. There
are over 17,000 of these horrific
devices in the world with thousands
poised and ready to strike in short order.’
JONATHAN GRANOFF
‘Global Common Goals and Goods: Security and Realism’
writing in International Law News of the American Bar Association (Winter 2015 Edition)
‘ Nuclear deterrence is about threatening the
most indiscriminate violence, unrestrained
by morality or law. It is therefore a policy of
gross irresponsibility, and the antithesis
of democratic values.’
DR FRANK BARNABY, nuclear scientist
writing in: ‘Deterring War Responsibly: A New Defence Policy for Britain’ published by JUST DEFENCE, 1995
5 years on from their first warnings about an impending ‘nuclear tipping point’ in 2008, the four senior US statesmen of the Nuclear Security Group wrote a further OpEd in the Wall Street Journal warning about the potentially catastrophic consequences of inaction on multilateral nuclear disarmament—
‘We’ve got to figure out a way to dismount this
tiger...We’re talking about the future of God’s world,
the existence of mankind—those are the stakes.’
former US SENATOR SAM NUNN
speaking in Westminster in May 2011
‘ It’s time now for a treaty to be signed to make
these obsolete weapons illegal forever, for everyone—
and to build a cooperative security strategy, one which
is part of our newly interconnected world, that will
actually address the problems that we face.’
DR SCILLA ELWORTHY
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