| ID | 127573 |
| Title Proper | Future of the nuclear order |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sagan, Scott D |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Scholars should be modest when making predictions about the future of nuclear weapons. After all, pundits, professors, and presidents alike have made radically inaccurate nuclear predictions in the past. "In that terrible flash 10,000 miles away," the journalist James Reston wrote in The New York Times
immediately after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, "men here have not only seen the fate of Japan, but have glimpsed the future of America." A group of Manhattan Project scientists similarly argued, "The whole history of mankind teaches . . . that accumulated weapons of mass destruction 'go off' sooner or later, even if this means a senseless mutual destruction." Yet the United States has not used nuclear weapons in combat since 1945 despite many opportunities to do so during Cold War crises, in Korea and Vietnam, or during the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. |
| `In' analytical Note | Current History Vol.113, No.759; January 2014: p.23-25 |
| Journal Source | Current History Vol.113, No.759; January 2014: p.23-25 |
| Key Words | War ; History ; Cold war ; Gulf war ; Nuclear weapons ; European Union - EU ; NATO ; United States - US ; Russia ; Iraq ; Iran ; Gulf Countries ; Middle East ; Vietnam ; Korea ; Japan |