flâneur

Opinion | Nuclear War: The Rising Risk, and How We Stop It - The New York Times

nytimes.com · 3,446 words · saved by 1 readers

NUCLEAR NATIONS ARE BUILDING UP THEIR ARSENALS, SPEEDING TOWARD THE NEXT ARMS RACE. IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION? Today’s generation of weapons — many of which are fractions of the size of the bombs America dropped in 1945 but magnitudes more deadly than conventional ones — poses an unpredictable threat. It hangs over battlefields in Ukraine as well as places where the next war might occur: the Persian Gulf, the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula. This is one story of what’s at stake — if even one small nuclear weapon were used — based on modeling, research and hundreds of hours of interviews with people who have lived through an atomic detonation, dedicated their lives to studying nuclear war or are planning for its aftermath. Nuclear war is often described as unimaginable. In fact, it’s not imagined enough. IF IT SEEMS ALARMIST to anticipate the horrifying aftermath of a nuclear attack, consider this: The United States and Ukraine governments have been planning for this scenario for

The risk of nuclear conflict is rising. Nuclear nations are building up their arsenals, speeding toward the next arms race. Is anyone paying attention? Today’s generation of weapons — many of which are fractions of the size of the bombs America dropped in 1945 but magnitudes more deadly than conventional ones — poses an unpredictable threat. It hangs over battlefields in Ukraine as well as places where the next war might occur: the Persian Gulf, the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula. This is one story of what’s at stake — if even one small nuclear weapon were used — based on modeling, resear

related reading