The War That Must Never Be Fought: Protecting the Nuclear Taboo

On December 10, Nihon Hidankyō will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their powerful testimony about the human suffering that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Forty years later, Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev warned that a nuclear war is a war that can never be won and must never be fought. Today, geopolitical tensions are rising again, and the nuclear taboo is under pressure. What can we do to protect it, and what does it take to achieve real disarmament? Is it strategically wise? And is it even possible in a world characterized by increasing conflict zones?

Together with researchers from various fields, political scientist Kjølv Egeland will guide us through the different dilemmas and paradoxes related to nuclear disarmament. The panel includes Tuva Widskjold from ICAN, Henrik Stålhane Hiim from the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, and James Cameron from the University of Oslo.