I resumed my peripatetic ways last week, visiting Seoul for discussions on controlling the spread of nuclear weapons. I used to run that program but hadn’t attended a meeting for a while. The conversation picked up pretty much where I’d left it nearly a decade ago.
Except everything feels much worse.
It’s hard, if not impossible, to escape the conclusion that the world is in a grim place when measured by nuclear metrics. Virtually all trends are negative and the institutions and mechanisms that have been devised to address these threats and challenges are failing. We’ve reached the point where some experts believe that we need a genuine crisis to alert officials and publics to the problem and create a sense of urgency.
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