From Beatrice Fihn, executive director of this year's
Nobel Peace Prize winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons:
Fear is rational. The threat is real. We have avoided nuclear war not through prudent leadership but good fortune. Sooner or later, if we fail to act, our luck will run out.
A moment of panic or carelessness, a misconstrued comment or bruised ego, could easily lead us unavoidably to the destruction of entire cities. A calculated military escalation could lead to the indiscriminate mass murder of civilians.
The end is inevitable. But will that end be the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us? We must choose one.
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