“This idea of a nuclear weapons-free world isn’t sort of pie in the sky,”
Oh really, you going to be the one that turns yours in first?
When I heard the comment I wasn’t surprised. Just more of the same from someone who doesn’t know better, but ought to.
You’re right... When bigger, more powerful Countries give up, or even drastically reduce their nuclear stockpiles... That is just going to make nuclear weapons much more desirable for smaller Countries and terrorist organizations. It will make nuclear weapons that much more valuable and relatively powerful. These people advocating a nuclear free world are idealistic fools that will put us at risk.
That's all it is. There was a plausibility in the bipolar world of 1986, but that was a different world. Today there is no chance.