Argument: Nuclear weapons make the world less not more secure

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• Mikhail Gorbachev. “The Nuclear Threat”. Wall Street Journal. January 31, 2007 – “It is becoming clearer that nuclear weapons are no longer a means of achieving security; in fact, with every passing year they make our security more precarious.”

• Mikhail Gorbachev. “The Nuclear Threat”. Wall Street Journal. January 31, 2007 – “we should not delude ourselves: In the final analysis, this problem can only be solved through the abolition of nuclear weapons. So long as they continue to exist, the danger will be with us, like the famous “rifle on the wall” that will fire sooner or later.

[…]We must put the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons back on the agenda, not in a distant future but as soon as possible. It links the moral imperative — the rejection of such weapons from an ethical standpoint — with the imperative of assuring security. It is becoming clearer that nuclear weapons are no longer a means of achieving security; in fact, with every passing year they make our security more precarious.”