Sustainability Threads
CNDSI is deeply committed to analyzing the complex relationship between nuclear power - especially in terms of production, maintenance, and deployment of weapons - and sustainability. Our team is still evolving and has established collaborations with students, researchers, and institutions through mutually beneficial arrangements. If you are interested in these themes and approach, please contact us at [email protected]
We believe that just transitions to climate-compatible societies create a compelling motivational framework that must be used to properly evaluate the results of actual nuclear disarmament cases and the need for sustained cooperation.
Nuclear disarmament has been advocated for years on moral grounds, stressing the unacceptable risk of omnicide and the destruction of life on the planet. In addition to being dangerous, nuclear weapons are extremely costly and environmentally burdensome. The environmental crisis, to which the production and use of nuclear weapons have contributed significantly, adds a new catastrophic threat to the habitability of the planet. Nuclear disarmament, especially when used to produce electricity from converted fissile fuel, historically shifted the balance of certain environmental risks, while also demonstrating a path for cooperation among adversaries toward reducing their shared existential risk. Importantly, there can be no successful nuclear disarmament without sustained and verified cooperation among interdependent states and international actors. The processes that lead, maintain, and make that cooperation effective are also very relevant to just transitions to climate-compatible societies and hold important lessons for sustaining engagement and action over time. The study of successful actual cases of nuclear disarmament demonstrates that it is not only possible to disarm - even nuclear arsenals - but also economically and environmentally advantageous to do so.