{"id":29230,"date":"2024-12-27T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war-editorial\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:50:10","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on arms control: essential to prevent the total devastation of nuclear war | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays, this column will explore next year\u2019s urgent issues. Today we look at why an unqualified belief in nuclear deterrence can\u2019t keep us safe<\/p>\n<p>Next November marks 40 years since the US president Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/archives\/speech\/joint-soviet-united-states-statement-summit-meeting-geneva\">declared<\/a> that \u201ca nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought\u201d. The statement was striking \u2013 not least because their militaries were pouring billions into preparing for an unwinnable conflict.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, at Reykjavik, the two came tantalisingly close to <a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/historicaldocuments\/frus1981-88v11\/d164\">eliminating<\/a> nuclear weapons entirely. That historic chance slipped away over Reagan\u2019s insistence on his unproven \u201cStar Wars\u201d missile defence system. The moment passed, but its lesson endures: disarmament demands courage \u2013 and compromise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays, this column will explore next year\u2019s urgent issues. Today we look at why an unqualified belief in nuclear deterrence can\u2019t keep us safe Next November marks 40 years since the US president Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared that \u201ca nuclear war cannot be won and must never be &#8230; <a title=\"The Guardian view on arms control: essential to prevent the total devastation of nuclear war | Editorial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war-editorial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Guardian view on arms control: essential to prevent the total devastation of nuclear war | Editorial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}