In “The chance of accidental nuclear war has been going down” I argue in the section “Are we at the ‘highest risk of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis’?” that it is almost certainly not the case that nuclear risk is higher now than it was before.
That being said, the risk being the highest now is not a necessary belief for deciding to support work on reducing the risk from nukes.
Peter, as noted above, a number of key international experts feel the danger is the greatest it has been. But your point is well taken: even if it is not worse than during the Cold War it is unacceptably high and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has certainly increased the risk further.
In “The chance of accidental nuclear war has been going down” I argue in the section “Are we at the ‘highest risk of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis’?” that it is almost certainly not the case that nuclear risk is higher now than it was before.
That being said, the risk being the highest now is not a necessary belief for deciding to support work on reducing the risk from nukes.
Peter, as noted above, a number of key international experts feel the danger is the greatest it has been. But your point is well taken: even if it is not worse than during the Cold War it is unacceptably high and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has certainly increased the risk further.