Jan 31, 2020
Our latest episode of The Global Cable features our
Distinguished Visiting Fellow Beatrice Fihn. Fihn
leads the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In
2017, she received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN,
recognizing its work towards the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons.
Fihn talks about whether it's more naive to work for a ban on
nuclear weapons or live in a world with thousands of them; why
governments don't always want the public to engage with national
security issues; and how we've so far avoided a nuclear war not by
good judgment, but by dumb luck.