The Director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) mentions that most of the nuclear superpowers are seeking ways to modernize their nuclear weapons as trade tensions and border tensions flared up in 2018. Worrying particularly of advancements of weapons technology emerging from the United States and Chinese trade conflict. So far, only 23 have signed the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The United States and Russia have both opposed this treaty. Countries like Cuba, Mexico, South Africa, etc have signed the treaty.
“I think that it’s genuinely a call to recognize – and this has been somewhat missing in the media coverage of the issues – that the risks of nuclear war are particularly high now, and the risks of the use of nuclear weapons, for some of the factors I pointed out, are higher now than at any time since World War Two.” - Renata Dwan
What are your thoughts about using nuclear weapons? Should we use nuclear energy at all?
