Nukes will eventually destroy life on Earth: American analyst
American writer and political analyst Stephen Lendman has criticized a joint decision by three United Nations veto states - the United States, Britain and France - not to join a UN-initiated global treaty on banning nuclear weapons, saying the decision would inevitably lead to the destruction of all life on Earth.
“If we don’t find a way to get rid of these [nuclear] weapons, they will find a way to get rid of us”, he said quoting renowned scientists Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell.
The huge arsenals of stockpiled nuclear weapons “could literally destroy human life on Earth ... by design,or by accident," the author said in an interview with Press TV on Saturday.
A day earlier, the UN had achieved to make a breakthrough in its effort to eradicate nuclear weapons by adopting for the first time since their invention a legally binding global agreement that would ban nuclear weapons.
However, the initiative was boycotted by all the nine nuclear powers, namely, the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel.
"France, the United Kingdom and the United States have not taken part in the negotiation of the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. We do not intend to sign, ratify or ever become party to it," the three countries said in a joint statement on Friday.
The US, UK and France, who are permanent members of the UN Security Council and wield veto power, said in their joint statement that the treaty on banning nuclear weapons “clearly disregards the realities of international security” which required the countries to stockpile a huge nuclear arsenal as a surefire deterrent against any enemy aggression.
"The three countries seem to be locked on policies that they should be against, but are for, and policies that they should be for, but are against,” Lendman said.
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