Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War: The Long View

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Matthew Bunn on the factors driving the risk of nuclear war — and how we shift them toward greater safety, for ourselves and for future generations. Location: The Foundry, 101 Rogers St, Cambridge Some of the most consequential decisions our civilization makes — decisions that will shape the lives of countless future generations — concern nuclear weapons and the risk of nuclear war. Harvard's Matthew Bunn will join Long Now Boston to take the long view on one of humanity's defining challenges. A nuclear war is unlikely to come "out of a clear blue sky." It is far more likely to arise from a crisis or conflict between nuclear armed states that escalates step by step. Bunn offers a structured way of thinking about reducing the risk at each of those steps: lowering the ch…

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