Nuclear weapons, power: No safety in time of war

I used to be happy to see the Op-Ed by Shampa Biswas “The lesson of this moment: Abolish nuclear weapons” [March 24, Opinion].

I agree along with her arguments for the overall abolition of nuclear weapons — and her statement that nuclear energy vegetation are, as she notes, “bombs ready to blow up.”

As Biswas factors out, Russia’s overt and implied threats of nuclear weapons use have interfered with a correct world response to its aggression in opposition to Ukraine. It has been terrifying to ponder that in addition to to see lively sustained artillery fireplace and energy cuts round nuclear energy vegetation in Ukraine.

All of the arguments for protected nuclear vitality fly out the window on the subject of conflict. Human beings are just too accident-prone and aggressive to have the ability to deal with this expertise that may result in the deaths of lots of of hundreds of thousands of individuals and widespread devastating environmental injury.

Noemie Maxwell Vassilakis, Burien