Nuclear Disarmament
Economics and Politics
The threat of nuclear war may appear less than at the height of the Cold War but the dangers remain huge. The major nuclear powers still point thousands of missiles at each other, each one capable of inflicting unimaginable suffering on millions of uninvolved people and future generations. The refusal of the major powers - especially the USA - to accept nuclear disarmament has encouraged nuclear proliferation in areas of conflict. Israel, for instance, is reliably estimated to have over 200 nuclear warheads.
What can be done to challenge the United States' claim to have the right to use nuclear weapons first even at a time when it has no enemy with superior conventional forces? How can a global campaign to enforce The Hague Court's ruling on nuclear weapons be sustained? What can non-nuclear states do together to keep this issue in the public and political arena?
