NIn November next year, it will be 40 years since US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorvachovsor’s leader declared that they will not win the nuclear war and will never fight. This statement was shocking. In particular, the army in the two countries had put billions of dollars in preparation for the winning conflict.
A year later, in Raykavik, they were fascinated by the completely elimination of nuclear weapons. His historical opportunities have been devastated by President Reagan’s unrecognized “Star Wars” missile defense systems. That moment has passed, but the lessons remain. The disarmament requires courage and compromise.
This summit was a turning point for the Cold War. Due to military management, the number of nuclear weapons held by the two countries is currently decreasing from 60,000 to about 11,000. In the latest new strategic weapon reduction treaty (New Start) signed in 2010, the number of strategic warheads to be deployed is limited to 1,550. In retrospect, it was a false dawn in nuclear diplomacy. Since George W. Bush left the United States in 2002 from a ballistic missile interception agreement with Russia, the risk of returning to the full -scale competition has increased.
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will again hold the key to the destruction of the Earth. Trump’s whimsical personality shows a new light on the old question of how many people should take the terrible responsibilities of large -scale nuclear destruction. He said the transfer of authority was “very tight” and “very scary.” Encouraging words -According to what he is told, he remembered that he was wondering, “If you have a nuclear weapon, why not use it?” The only authority of the President is to establish a legitimate control of nuclear weapons. But why do you concentrate on the hands of just one civilian?
Close to an apocalypse
Without bold actions, the new start, the last security of nuclear fabric easing, will expire in February 2026. Trump respects influential people, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, who recklessly flickered nuclear attacks during the War War of the Ukraine, and resumed the experiment. But if they decide not to control them, they will be a fatal mistake. It means that for the first time in more than 50 years, the United States and Russia, which have 90 % of the world’s nuclear weapons, may begin unlimited military competition. This miserable decision will send messages to other countries, especially China, further promoting nuclear stockpiling.
Detinuous force is not the only way to think about nuclear weapons. For decades, the conflict they involved were synonymous with Harmageddon. The terrible heritage of the “atomic bomb” can still be felt up to the experimental site contaminated with nuclear outlet. Such emotions led to a vision full of hope that Barak Obama was a worldless world in 2009. His speech was inspired by the activists, diplomat, and developing countries who decided to settle the global liquidation. Their resistance to the wisdom that nuclear army was unrealistic was fruitful in 2017 as a nuclear weapon prohibition adopted by 122 countries. The only way to prevent nuclear weapons will not be used again is to do the following: I completely break up with them.
The Nobel Prize -award -winning Nuclear Weapons International Campaign defended this treaty, a victory against a very great diplomatic diplomacy that long hindered the revision of the nuclear non -diffusion treaties. Nuclear holders are skeptical, even if they are not pseudo. However, their resistance does not reduce the importance of UN voting in 2017. This is not only a moral and legal challenge to the current situation, but reminds that many of the world do not accept the logic of mutual confirmation. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was further amplified this year, the Japan Bomb victim organization, the Japan Bosoma Association, won the Nobel Peace Prize for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Even now, 80 years after the first experiment, nuclear bombs have become old and long, and the danger has always existed. Nuclear weapons made to defeat Hitler, were dropped to end Japan’s imperial ambition, and survived to survive the Cold War survived for all reasons for its existence. Arsenal has shrunk, but not enough. The stockpiling of the world is still dangerous, and the efforts to reduce it seem to be stuck. This is contrary to the geopolitical background of nuclear diffusion, polarization, ideological, diverse United Nations, and American desires seeking global advantage. It is no wonder that the Nuclear Scientific Bulletin has set the final clock to the midnight of 90 seconds to the midnight, which is the closest to the end.
Liability share
In 2019, Gorbachev warns the nuclear deterrence with a legitimate reason that the world is always “dangerous.” It is clear that as long as these weapons exist, the danger of nuclear war cannot be eliminated. The problem is no longer why the bomb remains, but whether humanity can survive for another 80 years.
In December of this year, UN member states have passed the establishment of an independent science committee on the impact of the nuclear war with 144 to 3. The UK was one of the opposition. Imagination has already exceeded the facts. Annie Jacobson explained in his book “Nuclear War,” the North Korea’s “Blue Autake” attack causes nuclear exchange between the United States and Russia, and humanity may be destroyed within 72 minutes. She wrote that thousands of warheads have fallen in the United States, Europe, Russia and Asia, destroying cities, burning their lives, and taking billions of lives, light and hope. The street melts, and the wind flats the ground. Those who can withstand have terrible wounds that can no longer behave as humans.
Jacobson pointed out that this end -of -life vision is the logical consequence of the current nuclear theory of the world. The people who appeared from the devastation discovered the words “Survivors will envy the dead”, which was warned by the Soviet leader Nikita Fulshov several decades ago. The misery is perfect and has a future that no one can withstand.
While the US Relationship is historically sluggish, there is one truth that it cannot win the nuclear war and never fight. Moscow and Washington leaders should reconfirm this not only in the substantial restrictions of strategic missile defense, but also in negotiations on significantly reducing weapons. Such statements are simple but deep, reminiscent of the world that Trump and Putin are recognizing the common responsibility to prevent global catastrophe. This is not easy. The growing nationalism, the geopolitical conflict, the mutual distrust between the two countries, the mutual distrust of Ukraine, especially the disruption of the Ukraine, has a significant shadow. But you have to try it. No matter how violently the opinion is, Washington and Russia are obliged to talk and act on humanity to avoid unthinkable things.
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