Despite optimistic attempts to rid the world of nuclear weapons, the threat they pose to peace is growing.
IN JANUARY 2007 Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, William Perry and Sam Nunn — two Republican secretaries of state, a Democratic defence secretary and a Democratic head of the Senate Armed Services Committee — called for a global effort to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons.
The ultimate goal, they wrote in the Wall Street Journal, should be to remove the threat such weapons pose completely.
WNU Editor: When it comes to nuclear weapons .... my biggest fear has always been proliferation. For the past 70 years there has been a global push to keep these weapons limited to a few countries .... unfortunately .... I cannot help but feel that the old order is now changing, and some of the more unsavory governments in the world are now looking at these weapon systems as a guarantor of their own national security and rule.
Update: The world is facing a growing threat of nuclear war -- Economist
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If you mean between the United States and Russia? I think the answer is no when it comes to nuclear war. Russia knows how vulnerable it is to US systems, and Russia has little or no early warning capability right now.
The closest the world has come to nuclear war was in the early 2000's. India and Pakistan were, if reports are correct, mere days or hours from a war. Colin Powell basically stopped that war (although he'll never get credit for it).
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