Luck regarding nuclear weapons.

Written SH on 2022-08-10.

In future tp . Tagged xrisk nuclear

In his recent speech to the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons the UN Secretary-General gave a rather solemn assessment as to ongoing risk of nuclear weapons to humanity. While commending the benefits and hope that the NPT has offered in previous years he also observed that luck has played a significant part.

We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy.
United Nations, 2022. Secretary-General's remarks to the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. online.

While it feels alarming to think that luck has been a significant part of the success of the NPT it does remind us that risks identified can be planned for and considered. The NPT has played no small part in managing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the risk they pose.

In 2022 the consequences, reality and risk of nuclear weapons, and a nuclear exchange has once again become a very live issue. While the imagination of the film makers perhaps illuminate actual practical uses of such weapons we are once again dealing with the reality of a conflict with a belligerent being nuclear equipped and the consequences on the war space of this.

Tenth Person

Resilience within business process and data storage could be areas of consideration here. Are the process and systems in place capable of surviving such an event or a more localised infrastructure collapse?

Future Imagining

A future scared by a nuclear exchange looks potentially similar to that of one ravaged by climate change. A future with scare supplies and limited international cooperation would perhaps be typical of the outcome of a survived nuclear exchange.

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References

Guterres, A., 2022. Secretary-General's remarks to the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.URL.

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