The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee warned that the risk of a nuclear conflict is greater than for a long time.
ICAN describes itself as a coalition of grassroots non-government groups in more than 100 nations. It began in Australia and was officially launched in Vienna in 2007.
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Given the current tensions due to North Korea, this prize seems somehow apt. What do you think?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Monday October 09 2017, @02:03AM (3 children)
There's a certain sort of ideology that gets the world very wrong. It's not left or right, but rather the idea that we are incredibly broken and every ill or evil we have or done is at immense and growing levels. While with the Syrian war, things got worse again, the above is still a remarkable achievement for a planet with 6.6 billion people on it (as of 2007). War is one of the notable evils that we have reduced substantially over the past half century and that in turn is due to nuclear weapons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @10:24AM (2 children)
And how many deaths will there be in a nuclear war, in a world that has 9600 warheads [armscontrol.org] in military service? Last time around, 2 warheads were used, causing roughly 200,000 deaths.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday October 11 2017, @11:42AM (1 child)
A lot more than 22,000 people even if only one is used on a population center. One must distinguish between potential and actual here. The tools exist to kill potentially billions of people either near instantly or over the course of several weeks. But in actuality, in a recent year, we had war deaths down to a point that probably has been rarely matched over the past few millennia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @02:31PM
Everything that is actual was once potential. Potentially, something could go wrong. [time.com]