Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The five recognized nuclear weapons states have a legal obligation to pursue disarmament under Article VI of the NPT, but as the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists ticks ever closer to midnight, these same states are pursuing a costly modernization program that enshrines a nuclear oligarchy over our indefinite future. As we approach the 70th anniversary of the announcement of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto the scientific case to abandon nuclear deterrence has never been stronger. Modern climate models show that the global cooling induced by even a limited nuclear war would be devastating to the world community. This article provides a brief introduction to recent work on nuclear winter, and makes the case that nuclear weapons are not an instrument of national security, but rather a spectre of our own annihilation.
Source: Springer proceedings in physics
Author: David Alexandre Ellwood
Language: English
Topic: Nuclear Issues and Defense
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204923618