Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Why the United States Should Lead George Perkovich, Policy Brief Efforts to re-invigorate a movement to abolish nuclear weapons are rising on the international agenda, made clear in statements by the U.S. presidential candidates, British and Indian leaders, and a campaign led by former U.S. officials. For states without weapons, talk of nuclear disarmament is embraced as a welcome change, but viewed with skepticism. The next U.S. president should emphasize the goal of a world without nuclear weapons, explains George Perkovich in a new report (PDF).
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Mr. Perkovich also compared nuclear weapons to Nazi gas chambers saying "Those (gas chambers) haven't been disinvented but we don't have them around now and don't think they should be around and we're prepared to take action to enforce that" How can he make such a ludicrous comparison? Since when can a gas chamber obliterate a foreign city thousands of miles away? And what action exactly would a country that has destroyed all of its nuclear weapons take against a country that refuses to give theirs up (or builds new ones)? Would we punish them with economic sanctions? The world will be free of nuclear weapons when someone invents a device that renders nuclear weapons irrelevant and/or useless. And, it will have nothing to do with gas chambers.
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