The Journal of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament has published Paul Meyer’s lecture at the November 2022 Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention/Centre for International Policy Studies event in Ottawa:
Nuclear Threats and Canada’s Disarmament Diplomacy
Nuclear weapons and the existential threat they pose to humanity have assumed a new and disturbing saliency in the last few months. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, accompanied as it is by persistent nuclear “sabre-rattling” and the blatant use of these weapons as instruments of intimidation and coercion has rudely reminded global society that huge arsenals of these weapons of mass destruction remain. But it could be worse. Humankind could face the actual detonation of a nuclear weapon, demolishing a 77-year-long taboo against their use.