This ain't a scene!
In this file photo taken on January 23, 2020, the Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists will announce on Jan 24 whether the time of the symbolic clock will change. – AFP
The deal to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons isn’t even on life support anymore. North Korea spent 2022 firing a record number of missile tests, and Kim Jong Un has promised to expand his country’s nuclear capabilities “exponentially” in the new year. But a safer approach would be to avoid a nuclear arms race, not to aim to win it. After all, there are no winners in nuclear conflagration.
North Korea and Iran might be nuclear bogeymen, but using them as an excuse to grow our own large nuclear arsenal would be like buying more guns to deter fire ants, when your boot would do the job just fine if needed. If North Korea dared launch a first strike against South Korea, highly accurate US and South Korean precision conventional missiles would be enough to defeat North Korea conventionally.
Yet China’s rapidly growing nuclear arsenal does call for action to limit future risks. The safest and most sensible action is arms control. If the United States presses for arms control and agrees to limits itself, it could convince others to follow suit. If it chooses to build up more instead, others will follow suit as well, only increasing the danger presented by either outright aggression or accident.
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