Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin represented in Neapolitan Nativity statues

أسلحة الدمار الذكورية

May 1, 2018 Beatrice Fihn

جنيف ــ بصفتي واحدة من أنصار القضاء على الأسلحة النووية، فأنا لا أملك ترف تنميق الكلمات. فهناك ما يقرب من 15 ألف رأس حربي نووي موزعة على مختلف أنحاء العالَم، والقضاء عليها يستلزم ذِكر الحقائق ــ والحقائق القاسية غالبا ــ في الحوار مع السلطة. ومن هذا المنطلق، اسمحوا لي أن أتحرى الوضوح التام: الواقع أن قادة اليوم يفتقرون إلى القدر الكافي من الاستقرار العاطفي لائتمانهم على المخزون من الأسلحة النووية في العالَم.

كما قلت أمام لجنة نوبل العام الماضي عندما قبلت جائزة نوبل للسلام نيابة عن منظمتي، "الحملة الدولية للقضاء على الأسلحة النووية"، فإن "الأسلحة النووية تُعَد سلاحا يحمله مجنون يهدد به عالمنا بشكل دائم". والواقع أن رجالا مجانين يضعون أصابعهم على الزناد الآن.

لأسباب أعجز عن فهمهما، اختيرت الأسلحة النووية كرمز لقوة الذكور. ففي الأشهر الأخيرة، تفاخر علانية كل من دكتاتور كوريا الشمالية كيم جونج أون والرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترمب حول "حجم" أزراره وقوة ترسانته. وحتى لا يسمح لأحد بالتفوق عليه، استخدم رئيس روسيا فلاديمير بوتن خطابه السنوي أمام البرلمان الروسي للتأكيد على امتلاك روسيا فعليا لأقوى الأسلحة النووية على الإطلاق. وقد دعم مباهاته برسوم متحركة مبهرة تصور إلى أي مدى قد تكون صواريخه "لا تقهر".

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Robert Coleman May 7, 2018

It is true that it is largely men that have the ability to blow us up at the moment, but why is this always a gender thing? Would we be any better off if Sarah Palin had her finger on the button? Everyone knows she's stable. Even Theresa May, she's chock full of principles and wouldn't do anything she doesn't believe in; except implement Brexit and deport the 'Windrush'British people. Where were those principles, again? I'm sick to death of the female supremacy line. Margaret Thatcher, milk-snatcher, was not known for her gentle diplomacy. Women are as capable as men, and on all fronts. Only a fool thinks otherwise.
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Ali Sadeghi May 6, 2018

Besides the click-baiting title, the Author doesn't really say anything useful in this piece. "It’s time that we took these weapons away from everyone – before the most reckless leaders get us all killed"? Really? What a profound piece of 'female' wisdom! It would be great if the author also explained HOW we are going to de-nuke the word, besides idealistic wishful trite.
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Michael Public May 1, 2018

It would be suicide for the US to reduce its nuclear supply - it would basically incentivise the other nuclear nations to either retain them in secret or worse yet, launch a first strike. It would better to campaign for something realistic like a policy change from fire on warning to fire on retaliation only.
- P. Kamath May 1, 2018
  
  MP: Just a fact! Any nation that is capable of making a MAD weapon has the ability to make few more for retaliation ,one way or the other (by hiding). Weapons are designed using fundamental laws of Physics, Chemistry and mathematics. These laws are not man made but those of science of Mother Nature! Any determined nation can make MAD weapons. There is no winner and at the end only losers! 😁😁
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