Source: Al Jazeera
by Melissa Parke
“When United States President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev met in Geneva in 1985 they agreed ‘A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.’ It was the prelude to the beginning of the end of the Cold War nuclear arms race and subsequent deep cuts in American and Soviet – later Russian – arsenals. Since then, the original five nuclear weapons states have reaffirmed this statement, most recently in 2022. But some disagree and hark back to the military strategies of the 1950s that envisaged the use of nuclear weapons by troops on the battlefield to win wars.” (12/12/24)