European Leadership Network appeals to nuclear weapons States to reduce nuclear risks
Group statement | 14 December 2020 European Leadership Network ELN Group Statement: Appeal for P5 states to reduce nuclear weapons risks. Over the past decade, geopolitical relations among the major powers have deteriorated and the threshold of nuclear use has lowered due to the near-total erosion of arms control, the modernisation of nuclear arsenals in all P5 states as well as a move, by some P5 states, to include “limited nuclear use” in their national security strategies. These developments, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s entry-into-force, are...