Archive » Tag: Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
Without arms control, hypersonic weapons will magnify already growing nuclear dangers
July 15, 2019
With the USA, Russia and China now engaged in an arms race to develop terrifying new “hypersonic weapons” of unimaginable speed and maneuverability, we call on Canada to champion urgently needed multilateral arms control talks.
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January Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Highlights Nuclear Weapons Modernization
January 14, 2019
The Russian [nuclear] modernization program was spurred by the US withdrawal, under President George W. Bush in 2002, from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which Moscow had for four decades regarded as a central pillar of strategic stability. Moscow’s subsequent failure to reach a new agreement with the United States on missile defenses, and the collapse […]
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Civil society conference offers practical way forward on nuclear disarmament
October 3, 2017
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. — General Omar Bradley, 1948. From Friday, September 22nd to Saturday, September 23rd, this year’s Group of 78 Annual Policy […]
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