A NUCLEAR SPRING? - Nuclear Security Conference

April 14, 2010 - PRLog -- Spearhead Research Analysis

This has been another extraordinary week for President Barack Obama. The release of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR); the signing of the nuclear arms reduction treaty (START) with Russia; and the Nuclear Security conference in which more heads of state were convened by a U.S. president since Franklin Roosevelt proposed the San Francisco conference to establish a United Nations in 1945 were singular accomplishments. All could lead to a “nuclear spring.”

Twenty five or thirty years ago, the threat of nuclear war prompted the prediction of a so-called “nuclear winter,” that is an end to civilization as we knew it following thermonuclear war. A made for television movie graphically depicted the effects of a nuclear winter that turned the United States into a barren and unlivable land. Fortunately, neither East nor West was reckless or foolish enough to allow that catastrophe to happen. Now, given the past week, the prospect of a “nuclear spring” that reduces or eliminates the likelihood of using any form of nuclear destructive power through international cooperation has taken a large step forward.

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