Why can’t world leaders agree that a nuclear war should never be fought? | Jane Kinninmont
by Jane Kinninmont from on (#5KAQ6)
Biden and Putin must persuade other nuclear states that such a conflict should never be fought'
Meeting last week, the US and Russian presidents issued a joint statement declaring: a nuclear war should never be fought and could never be won". This consciously echoes what Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev said in a landmark summit in 1985, when the US and USSR started to step up nuclear arms control, and gradually reduced the world's fear of nuclear catastrophe.
Many reports of the Biden-Putin summit have not even mentioned this joint statement, because it sounds like simple common sense. Who wants a nuclear war?
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