The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
This week, Austria is providing the world an opportunity to rethink its complacency about nuclear weapons. On December 8-9, representatives from the governments of more than 150 countries, international organizations, and civil-society groups will meet in Vienna to consider the humanitarian impact of these weapons' use.
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VIENNA – In 1983, three years before I was born, a chilling television docudrama about the consequences of a nuclear war was broadcast around the world. The Day After, now cited as the highest-rated film in TV history, left then-US President Ronald Reagan “greatly depressed” and caused him to rethink his nuclear strategy. At their summit in Reykjavik in October 1986, he and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev came tantalizingly close to eliminating all nuclear weapons.