The Future of Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control
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“The most significant event of the past 60 years is the one that did not happen: the use of a nuclear weapon in conflict.”
Thomas Schelling (1921-2016), Nobel laureate and UMD Distinguished University Professor, in 2006.
After the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—which gauges the likelihood of nuclear war—stood at 17 minutes to midnight. Today, that interval is down to 90 seconds, amid hostilities involving heavily-armed countries, the quest of smaller nations to build nuclear weapons, ongoing economic rivalries and increasing nationalism.
The avoidance of nuclear conflict since the unspeakable destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 has required diligent work by the arms control and nuclear deterrence experts of the world's superpowers.
On Wednesday, April 26, at 4 p.m. in Room 0224 of the Edward St. John Learning & Teaching Center, four physicists who are renowned experts on deterrence and arms control will discuss the current global situation.
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