Half a century after the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of destruction, we again find ourselves at a time of deeply disturbing nuclear threats and dangers of nuclear war.
These threats are considered by most experts – such as the 15 Nobel laureates among the custodians of the Doomsday Clock – to be as high as they have ever been.
It seems that the superpowers of the world have not taken their history lessons as seriously as many of us had hoped they would. Which is why it is heartening that the majority of the world, 122 states, have stepped up and shown leadership.… Seguir leyendo »
By Michael A. Levi, a researcher in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and a nonresident science fellow at the Brookings Institution (THE WASHINGTON POST, 10/12/05):
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, will receive the Nobel Peace Prize today at ceremonies in Oslo. This award has been interpreted by many as a vote for conciliation over confrontation in the fight against the spread of nuclear arms, and to be sure, the less hawkish option has certainly been ElBaradei's preference.
But to so interpret this Nobel Prize, or to give it any other narrow political reading, shortchanges the atomic energy agency.… Seguir leyendo »
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