Carnegie Council Podcasts
Carnegie Council Podcasts
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Banning Nuclear Weapons with 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Winner ICAN
27 minutes Posted Dec 7, 2017 at 10:24 am.
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Did you know that 122 countries have adopted a treaty to ban nuclear weapons? The organization behind this movement is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In this spirited and informative discussion, Ray Acheson and Beatrice Fihn of ICAN take apart the nuclear deterrence myth, expecially in the case of North Korea, and the belief that nukes are "special" and therefore exempt from the ban on targeting civilians.