"Humanitarian Consequences and Nuclear Weapons"

Nuclear weapon test Romeo on Bikini Atoll, 1954 (Photo courtesy of the US Dept. of Energy)

October 28, 2013

Commentary by Amb. (Ret'd) Paul Meyer
Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Published by Canadian International Council's OpenCanada.org, Canada's Hub for International Affairs
October 28, 2013


Paul Meyer comments on the debate over the "catastrophic humanitarian consequences" of any use of nuclear weapons and its implications for multilateral disarmament action which continues apace, including at the current session of United Nations General Assembly's First Committee.  

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Amb. (Ret'd) Paul Meyer is a Fellow in International Security, Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation.