‘A tragic illusion’: did the atom bomb make the UN obsolete three weeks after its birth?
The United Nations has done a great deal of good in its 75 years. But it has not abolished war, nor has it eliminated eternal arms races between major powers.
Tad Daley, Director of Policy Analysis at Citizens for Global Solutions, is author of the book “APOCALYPSE NEVER: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World” from Rutgers University Press. He has served as a policy advisor, speechwriter, and/or coauthor for Congressman Dennis Kucinich, the late U.S. Senator Harris Wofford, and the late U.S. Senator Alan Cranston. He’s now at work on a new book about redesigning, democratizing, and empowering the United Nations.
The United Nations has done a great deal of good in its 75 years. But it has not abolished war, nor has it eliminated eternal arms races between major powers.
The United Nations needs soldiers of its own — to put a stop to genocide and crimes against humanity when national governments are unwilling to dispatch their own forces to do so.