Eradicate nuclear weapons now

Some 2000 of the US and Russian nuclear weapons remain on high alert, ready to be launched, within a decision window for each President of 4 to 8 minutes.

Calls for reduction in the world's nuclear arsenals must be taken seriously. Nuclear weapons are capable of massive annihilation. They are considered to be instruments of power and prestige only in cultures that are numb to the potential consequences of such technologies of death or that go beyond such numbness to affirm and glorify the wanton destructiveness they represent.
Nuclear weapons present humankind with an immense challenge. These weapons are omnicidal and they go beyond suicide and genocide. Some 2000 of the US and Russian nuclear weapons remain on high alert, ready to be launched, within a decision window for each President of 4 to 8 minutes.
Farouk Araie, by email