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In one case, one of the bombs, which fell out of an Air Force plane, didn't detonate because the nuclear core was stored somewhere else on the plane.

That's when Russian radar technicians saw what they thought was a US nuclear missile streaking towards Russian airspace.

But at that time, Russian President Boris Yeltsin came within five minutes of launching a full-scale retaliatory nuclear attack against the United States.

So, most of the world's nuclear nations have committed to getting rid of these weapons of mass destruction.

But consider this: the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which is the most widely adopted arms control treaty in history with 190 signatories, sets no specific date by which the world's nuclear-armed nations will get rid of their nuclear weapons.

But the promise of joint innovation between these two nuclear superpowers wasn't totally extinguished.

Because in 1991, which is the year that Jasmine was born and the Soviet Union fell, these two nations engaged in a project that genuinely does seem incredible today in the truest sense of that word, which is that the US sent cash to the Russians when they needed it most, to secure loose nuclear materials and to employ out-of-work nuclear scientists.

They worked alongside American scientists to convert weapons-grade uranium into the type of fuel that can be used for nuclear power instead.

To get rid of nuclear weapons and to end the supply of the materials required to produce them, some experts tell me would take 30 years.

It would take a renaissance of sorts, the kinds of innovation that, for better or worse, underpinned both the Manhattan Project, which gave rise to nuclear weapons, and the Megatons to Megawatts program.

Now, 2045 happens to be the 100th anniversary of the birth of nuclear weapons in the New Mexico desert.

But here's the thing: that vision of abundance isn't compatible with a world that still relies on a 20th-century nuclear doctrine called "mutually assured destruction."

Now, every day, I get to meet people who are real pioneers in the field of nuclear threats.

As you can see, many of them are young women, and they're doing fiercely interesting stuff, like Mareena Robinson Snowden here, who is developing new ways, better ways, to detect nuclear warheads, which will help us overcome a critical hurdle to international disarmament.

Or Melissa Hanham, who is using satellite imaging to make sense of what's going on around far-flung nuclear sites.

Or we have Beatrice Fihn in Europe, who has been campaigning to make nuclear weapons illegal in international courts of law, and just won a big victory at the UN last week.

And yet, and yet, with all of our talk in this culture about moon shots, too few members of Generation Possible and those of us who mentor them are taking on nuclear weapons.

Let's end the nuclear weapons chapter on the 100th anniversary of its inception.

After all, by 2045, we will have held billions of people hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation.

So it's time we make a promise of a world in which we've broken the stranglehold that nuclear weapons have on our imaginations; in which we invest in the creative solutions that come from working backward from the future we desperately want, rather than plodding forward from a present that brings all of the mental models and biases of the past with it.

It's time we pledge our resources as leaders across the spectrum to work on this old problem in new ways, to ask, "How might we?" How might we make good on a promise of greater security for Jasmine's generation in a world beyond nuclear weapons?

There is a real war going on, and for those of us who have lived through the nuclear nonproliferation age and saw how people agreed to take some very dangerous things off the table, well, the Carnegie Endowment just finished a study.

They talked to every country that made nuclear weapons and asked them, "Which digital 'weapon' would you take off the table against somebody else's schools or hospitals?"

Now, it's not nuclear arms, it's not immigration, and it's not malaria.

The things that people, some people at least, care about much more immediately, perhaps, is climate change, perhaps other issues like refugees, nuclear weapons, and so forth.

Humanity can rise up to the challenge, and the best example we have of humanity rising up to the challenge of a new technology is nuclear weapons.

In the late 1940s, '50s, many people were convinced that sooner or later the Cold War will end in a nuclear catastrophe, destroying human civilization.

In fact, nuclear weapons prompted humans all over the world to change the way that they manage international politics to reduce violence.

In fact, I design nuclear reactors.

This is the conventional nuclear fuel cycle.

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