Pugwash's Urgent Steps for Nuclear Disarmament

Published July 11, 2007

As long as nuclear weapons exist, mankind will continue to be haunted by the risk of a nuclear holocaust.

In the 1990s it appeared that the international community was moving in the right direction. The Cold War ended and the United States and Russia began to reduce their nuclear arsenals.

However, in recent years the superpowers have been upgrading their warheads, nuclear weapons have...