The connection between terrorism and nuclear weapons; a nuclear-armed North Korea; the risk of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East triggered by Iran’s nuclear program; a new definition of state sovereignty as “nuclear sovereignty,” accompanied by a massive increase in the number of small and medium-sized nuclear states; a possible collapse of public order in nuclear Pakistan; the illegal proliferation of military nuclear technology; the legal proliferation of civilian nuclear technology and an increase in the number of “civilian” nuclear states, implying military proliferation risks; the nuclearization of space, triggering an arms race among large nuclear powers. Important political leaders, especially in the two biggest nuclear powers, the US and Russia, know today’s existing risks and tomorrow’s emerging ones all too well.
Ядерное оружие в руках Северной Кореи; Опасность гонки ядерных вооружений на Ближнем Востоке, вызванной ядерной программой Ирана; Новое определение государственного суверенитета, как ampquot;ядерного суверенитетаampquot;, сопровождающееся значительным увеличением числа малых и средних государств, обладающих ядерным оружием;