Nuclear weapons

Following the second conference on the ‘humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons’ in Mexico last month Frank Boulton asks ‘where are they going?’

by Frank Boulton 7th March 2014

Although the post-cold war global inventory of nuclear weapons has declined dramatically from its peak of 70,000 during the late 1980s, the 17,000 or so remaining are still enough to threaten all human life many times over. At least 2,000 remain on high alert – targeted on cities, people, ports, transport hubs, military sites and power plants (including those fuelled by nuclear energy).