To begin with, a massive, years-long global civil society campaign highlighting the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons culminated in the signing in 2018 of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Nuclear deterrence experts believe that nuclear weapons make great power war less likely and, as a result, the world safer. They want to update and modernize nuclear arsenals, and the nuclear industry is engaged in a propaganda campaign to ensure support for such efforts. In contrast, nuclear disarmament activists view nuclear weapons as a scourge. Between these two extremes sits the nonproliferation crowd, who view nuclear weapons technology as an inescapable reality, but one that gets more dangerous the wider it spreads.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 12, 2023 18:22 UTC