“Mutually assured paralysis” has replaced “mutually assured destruction” as the greatest nuclear threat as world leaders fail to act decisively to promote disarmament and stem proliferation, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned on Tuesday. While governments are coming together to address many global threats, “the one area where there is a total lack of any common strategy is the one that may well present the greatest danger of all - the area of nuclear weapons,” Annan said in a lecture at Princeton University. “We are asleep at the controls of a fast-moving aircraft. Unless we wake up and take control, the outcome is all too predictable,” he said.
Nukes have been around longer than the UN, Kofi. The problem is who has 'em - and who wants 'em.