Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Globally
By Abeer Naz
Karachi
Today, there are more than 16,000 nuclear weapons globally. These weapons of mass destruction threaten our national security, pose a grave risk of humanitarian disaster and siphon off billions in precious economic resources.
We must not continue to pour more and more taxpayer money into these catastrophes-waiting-to-happen. Instead, we should work urgently to eliminate the risks -- and the only reliable, verifiable way to do that is to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, secure all nuclear materials, and eliminate all nuclear weapons: “global zero.”
What we need now is for nuclear weapons countries to come together and begin discussing real, time-bound, actionable plans to eliminate all nuclear weapons globally. It won’t happen overnight, but we can get the process started and begin building a safer, saner world for this generation and all generations to come. We must not wait for the inevitable disaster, which could see a major city wiped off the map, before we act.
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