NATO Looks Backward, Nobel Peace Laureates Look Forward to Youth

Colleague Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, penned this important and timely blog on Huffington Post on May 31st. "NATO leaders provided no new approaches to security and essentially reaffirmed military commitments arising from the Cold War, including the continued presence of 180 tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. The stated reason for these weapons is to be the "supreme guarantee of the security" of the NATO member states. Such a nuclear deterrence theory approach could become contagious. If the most expensive and powerful military alliance in human history needs nuclear weapons for their collective security, then why would weapons of mass destruction not be of benefit to others in more dangerous neighborhoods? The Nobel Peace Laureates provided a different approach. One can only imagine how much more successful the NATO gathering would have been had its members attended April's summit."