Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2024 with Andrew Futter
11 December 2024
Andrew Futter
At the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2024, Professor Futter hosted the first of two panel discussions on the current global nuclear threat.
“This year’s forum is to honour atomic bomb victims and survivors, but also to raise awareness that our nuclear world is getting more not less dangerous, and that much of the hope and optimism we had 10 or 15 years ago has vanished,” said Professor Futter.
“We have nuclear modernisation happening, competitive rivalries between nuclear-armed states, a loosening of nuclear rhetoric, an erosion of arms control frameworks that have been around for decades, a growing divide between the disarmament community and the deterrence communities, and a lack of understanding, both with the public and at elite levels, about all of these issues. This is a perfect storm of nuclear dynamics.”
Professor Futter added: “But, this doesn’t mean that heightened nuclear tension is not irreversible. But nuclear weapons have returned to the forefront of global politics for the first time since at least the early-1980s.”
