Nuclear Weapons No Longer Serve A Military Purpose -- A Commentary

From The Irish Times:

Two modern dinosaurs flirted with catastrophe last month – nuclear submarines each armed with 16 ballistic missiles

THE child in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes told it like he saw it, leaving the surrounding adults to address the consequences.

Since we adults know that recognising an uncomfortable reality obliges us to do something about it, we often prefer to avert our eyes. Our current empirical need to pledge and spend incalculable trillions to transform our economies and save our planet denies us, however, the luxury of such selective myopia.

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