Should Britain and France give up their nuclear weapons?
Expert(s): Oliver Thränert
Journal Title: Debating Europe
Publication Year: 2017
Between them, nine countries in the world have roughly 15,000 nuclear weapons. That’s enough to wipe out human civilisation several times over. Even a “limited” nuclear exchange of a hundred or so warheads could cause catastrophic environmental damage, including “global ozone loss on a scale never observed”.