Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2026: Can we abandon the bomb?

Posted: 22nd September 2026

The nuclear genie may be out of the bottle but that does not mean that we cannot move beyond nuclear weapons and reject them, argue David P. Barash and Ward Wilson.

Can we abandon the bomb?

Crappy ideas don’t have to be forgotten to be abandoned, write Barash and Wilson. We can simply reject lousy technology and move on. We’ve done this with other failed or obsolete technologies in the past, so this could include nuclear weapons. However, that does not mean we should not also try to abolish them. We simply shouldn’t fall prey to the excuse that it’s impossible. Ideas may stick around, the authors argue, but technologies don’t always. READ MORE

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