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It typically stems from a relationship gone bad, where a controlling, jilted ex-lover can't handle rejection, so when they can't physically put their hands on you, they use different weapons: cell phones and laptops.
Well, what about the weapons?
What we find is the only way we know how to get rid large numbers of nuclear weapons is by using the plutonium in the warheads as fuel in our nuclear power plants.
And so, if you are wanting to get the world rid of nuclear weapons, then we're going to need a lot more nuclear power.
But somewhere along the line I'd learned about nuclear weapons, and I'd gotten really concerned with the ethics of science.
They're even building machines, weapons, that might kill human beings in war.
I don't even want to think what "error" means in the context of lethal autonomous weapons.
And to enable our warriors to use these weapons, we employ the most cutting-edge training methods.
He got the police in Ghana to show up with a crane and threaten to board the ship, and it wasn't until the navy officers drew their weapons that they called off the operation.
But you can forget that nuclear latte, because today's nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more powerful even than those we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And even a limited nuclear war involving, say, tens of nuclear weapons, could lead to the end of all life on the planet.
So it's really important that you know that right now we have over 15,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of nine nations.
In fact, if you live in any of the rural areas where nuclear weapons are stored globally, one is likely pointed at you.
About 1,800 of these weapons are on high alert, which means they can be launched within 15 minutes of a presidential command.
They regularly protest about the issues they care about, but nuclear weapons are not one of them, which makes sense, because Jasmine was born in 1991, at the end of the Cold War.
So she didn't grow up hearing a lot about nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons help win games.
And that is really a shame, because right now, we need Generation Possible to help us make some really important decisions about nuclear weapons.
And it's really important, because there have been dozens of accidents involving nuclear weapons, and I bet most of us have never heard anything about them.
Just here in the United States, we've dropped nuclear weapons on the Carolinas twice.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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