Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest 3rd April 2023

Posted: 3rd April 2023

The public may not be focused on the possibility of nuclear war but the threat is very real. Congress and the White House have a responsibility to ensure it doesn’t happen, write Robert Dodge and Sean Meyer. For nuclear deterrence to work, it must be 100% foolproof, all the time, impossible to guarantee. Therefore it is not a strategy for peace, argues Austrian diplomat, Alexander Kmentt.

A way out of the unthinkable

Very few Members of Congress have made preventing a nuclear war a priority but this needs to change before the unthinkable happens, say two disarmament campaigners. There is a Resolution for that: HR 77. Sponsorship of the bill would reassure President Biden that Congress has his back, allowing him to take bold steps, including having the US sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. READ MORE

The price of being wrong

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was the first such to recognize the injustices done by the use of nuclear weapons. It also repudiated deterrence and has forced a shift away from accepting nuclear weapons as a necessity. Those who cling to deterrence must recognize the price of being wrong. READ MORE

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