My Plan to Drop the Bomb
Sixty-three years after the world agreed to pursue nuclear disarmament, and 39 years after the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force, more than 20,000 such weapons reportedly remain, with many still on high alert. But after a decade of inaction, disarmament is back on the international agenda.
NEW YORK – The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 marked an end and a beginning. The close of the Second World War ushered in a Cold War, with a precarious peace based on the threat of mutually assured destruction.
NEW YORK – The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 marked an end and a beginning. The close of the Second World War ushered in a Cold War, with a precarious peace based on the threat of mutually assured destruction.