A Post-Nuclear Euro-Atlantic Security Order
Twenty years after the Cold War, the two largest powers in the Euro-Atlantic region β the US and Russia β each still possesses thousands of nuclear weapons. A stronger security order requires the reduction, and eventual elimination, of these relics of a bygone era.
WASHINGTON, DC β As we enter 2011, the Euro-Atlantic region is a study in strategic contrasts. Over the past 20 years, no geo-political space has undergone as dramatic a transformation as that between the Atlantic and the Urals. In our lifetimes, we have seen a welcome change from the darkest days of the Cold War, when a devastating conventional and nuclear war in Europe was a real possibility, to a new era in which no state faces this type of existential threat.
WASHINGTON, DC β As we enter 2011, the Euro-Atlantic region is a study in strategic contrasts. Over the past 20 years, no geo-political space has undergone as dramatic a transformation as that between the Atlantic and the Urals. In our lifetimes, we have seen a welcome change from the darkest days of the Cold War, when a devastating conventional and nuclear war in Europe was a real possibility, to a new era in which no state faces this type of existential threat.