War, Peace, and (In)Justice In The Nuclear Age

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War, Peace, and (In)Justice In The Nuclear Age

Over the long term, however, we must consider how to organize peace, security, and justice in a more participatory and egalitarian way, in a world that still has more than 12,000 nuclear warheads. It has been 77 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

By Ulrich Kühn

Published on Jun 7, 2022

Transatlantic Policy Quarterly

About the Author

Ulrich Kühn

Nonresident Scholar, Nuclear Policy Program

Ulrich Kühn is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the head of the arms control and emerging technologies program at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.

Recent Work

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Why Arms Control Is (Almost) Dead
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Report
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