Roundtable
How to Ban the Bomb
An exchange on Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation
David Barash
We need to clearly and sharply debunk the common fallacy that nuclear weapons are needed for deterrence and security.
Andreas Bummel
The urgent need before us is to transform the United Nations into a democratic, legitimate, and effective system for global security.
Richard Falk
The world today, with its anodyne arms control paradigm and resurgent nationalism, makes nuclear disarmament an uphill battle, but there’s still hope.
Anna Harris
Nuclear weapons are a symptom of the wider disease of aggressiveness. The antidote is to become better attuned to our feelings and each other.
Judith Lipton
Understanding that nuclear weapons pose an existential risk to all species should compel us to act.
Ian Lowe
Nuclear weapons and nuclear power have always been intertwined, and only radical change will mitigate the joint risks they pose.
Hiroo Saionji
Awakened moral consciousness and organized citizen pressure can bring the systemic change nuclear abolition requires, as movements of the past teach us.
Lawrence Wittner
In addition to a reinvigorated popular movement for disarmament, we need a fundamentally redesigned national security framework.
David Krieger
David Krieger addresses points raised by the contributors to this roundtable discussion.
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