A non-nuclear future

THOMAS C. SCHELLING, Professor at the University of Maryland expresses skepticism about global nuclear disarmament and argues that such an order would not necessarily be safer than the current nuclear deterrence based order. In an article in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "A world without nuclear weapons?", he states that global nuclear zero would mean a world wherein about a dozen countries would have hair-trigger mobilization plans to rebuild nuclear weapons, commandeer delivery systems, and plans to target others' nuclear facilities, with practice drills and secure emergency communications and that every crisis would be a nuclear crisis, and any war could become a nuclear war.