UN Disarmament Week

In their Nobel-prize winning theory about what influences the mind to distort our perceptions of truth, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky asked themselves why they slowed down in their car after passing a horrific accident on a highway? Their answer is that we overweight recent events that threaten us, while in fact the reality of their risk doesn’t change.

As time passes without incident, our estimate and attention to certain risks, such as nuclear war, becomes under-weighted. It has been 80 years since the last nuclear strikes. They killed 214,000 Japanese people. 

There’s no greater fatal mistake than to think and behave as if nuclear war can’t happen. Or if it does, that it can be 'strategic' or 'limited' and we will survive its unimaginable devastation. It’s in fact inevitable and will start either by intention or mistake.

Humanity’s only hope is to disarm, a position supported by more than half of all countries in the world. October 24 to 30 is UN Disarmament Week. 

There are more than 12,000 nuclear weapons on earth. They must be eliminated before they eliminate us.

Thetis Island could join the more than 1,000 cities and communities across the world that support the UN's Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Dave Steen

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