Nuclear, letter from 700 scientists to Biden

Hundreds, about 700 scientists and engineers – including 21 Nobel Laureates – have signed a letter appealing to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, in which they say they are “seriously concerned about the risks posed by nuclear weapons”. In the letter, the news of which began to circulate in the United States in recent days and that Adnkronos had the opportunity to read, the scientists and engineers – belonging to the major American but also European and Italian research institutes – write to Biden : “We know you share our concerns. The ongoing Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is an opportunity for you to reduce the risk of nuclear war by reducing the US nuclear arsenal and its role in US security. and modifying the policies that regulate its use “. “This is a crucial moment. The United States must slow down the renewed nuclear arms race with Russia and China. It must also demonstrate that it is fulfilling its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to take steps towards disarmament.” the scientists write again in the appeal letter to Biden in which they put forward four requests to be included in the NPR. “We urge you to incorporate the following steps into your NPR: Declare that the United States will not use nuclear weapons first; Change the president’s authority to order the use of nuclear weapons; Reduce the number of strategic nuclear weapons deployed to 1,000 ; Cancel the program to replace the existing ICBMs and instead extend their duration. THE ITALIAN NOBEL PARISI ALSO AMONG THE SIGNATORS – There is also the Italian Nobel Prize in Physics 2021, Giorgio Parisi, among the signatories of the appeal letter. was sent to Biden within days of the Biden administration’s formal initiation of a US nuclear weapons policy review known as the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The Nuclear Posture Review is a process “to determine what the role of weapons should be. in the United States Security Strategy “and is a public policy document that every US administration has published since 1994 during the early years is in charge and should be released in 2022, as NATO Defense College recalled on December 15 on the website.