The resurgence of arms racing and the collapse of nuclear arms control: Time once again to protest and surviv e
The last few years have seen a growing arms race among the leading nuclear-armed countries. In parallel\, there is the collapse of th e remaining arms control treaties that have placed limitations on the kinds and numbers of nuclear weapons that could be deployed by Russia and the Un ited States\, which together possess over 90% of the world’s nuclear arms. This round of arms racing could surpass the Cold War in complexity and inst ability. Today there are more countries with significant nuclear arsenals\, and new material and political conflicts among the elites who govern nucle ar-armed states. Military-industrial complexes remain powerful forces entre nched for over a half-century\, their interests bound to endless high-techn ology military confrontation. All of this is happening as authoritarian nat ionalist governments have emerged and there has been an erosion of what dem ocracy has existed in the world’s most powerful states.
This talk wil l address this resurgence of tensions and arms racing among the nuclear pow ers\, and will offer some thoughts concerning the kinds of movements and ci vil society responses needed to avoid catastrophic wars\, and to create a w orld in which the elimination of nuclear arsenals might be possible.
Speaker: Andrew Lichterman\, Western States Legal Foundati on\, Oakland\, California
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