"Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament"

Address by Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons
President, The Simons Foundation
Fifth Simons Symposium on Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Elimination
62nd Pugwash Conference on Science & World Affairs, Confronting New Nuclear Dangers
Astana, Kazakhstan
August 25–29, 2017

Please see the link below for Dr. Jenifer Allen Simons' introduction to the Fifth Simons Symposium on Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Elimination held during the 62nd Pugwash Conference on Science & World Affairs, Confronting New Nuclear Dangers, in Astana, Kazakhstan on August 25–29, 2017.

"Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament"

-The Symposium topic, Prospects for Nuclear Disarmament, comes at a time when the situation does not look at all promising. As the Global Zero Nuclear Crisis Group points out, the risks of a nuclear exchange, or a nuclear war, are unacceptably high with current potential catastrophic flash points between India and Pakistan; the United States and Russia; NATO and Russia; and in the Korean Peninsula – which is causing us so much anxiety – even fear – today.