Humanist Community in Silicon Valley Sunday Forum: Four Common Overstatements about Nuclear Weapons

Benoît Pelopidas, postdoctoral scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, will discuss four commonly held ideas about nuclear weapons that he views as being overstatements:

1. One nuclear explosion will destroy the world.

2. Nuclear weapons preserved the peace during the Cold War.

3. The agenda of global nuclear disarmament is new in the US, and mostly Democratic.

4. Nuclear Arms Reductions and Disarmament have never existed.