{"id":2206555,"date":"2024-03-26T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thank-nuclear-submariners-not-nuclear-disarmament-consultants-for-our-avoidance-of-nuclear-war\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:29:26","slug":"thank-nuclear-submariners-not-nuclear-disarmament-consultants-for-our-avoidance-of-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thank-nuclear-submariners-not-nuclear-disarmament-consultants-for-our-avoidance-of-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit nuclear submariners, not &#8216;nuclear disarmament consultants,&#8217; for preventing nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthank-nuclear-submariners-not-nuclear-disarmament-consultants-for-our-avoidance-of-nuclear-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Emma Pike gained attention on social \u200dmedia by posting a TikTok video related to nuclear weapons \u200cfor the New York Times opinion section. \u200bIn\u2062 the video, she expressed \u2062optimism about avoiding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-russia-threatens-global-nuclear-fire-after-ukrainian-drone-strikes-moscow-no-other-way-out\/\" title=\"Breaking: Russia warns of 'global nuclear catastrophe' following Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow - 'No escape'\">global nuclear catastrophe<\/a>. Pike, a self-proclaimed &#8220;nuclear disarmament consultant,&#8221; aims\u200c to contribute to preventing nuclear war through\u200b activism and advocacy. Emma Pike caught \u200bthe public eye\u2063 with a \u200bTikTok video about nuclear weapons on the\u2062 New \u200cYork Times opinion section, where she shared hope for averting a global \u2062nuclear disaster.\u200b Identifying as a &#8220;nuclear \u2062disarmament consultant,&#8221; Pike is dedicated to combating nuclear\u2064 war\u200c through \u200dher advocacy and activism efforts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Emma Pike made social media waves on Friday via a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nuclear-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>nuclear weapons<\/a>-related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TikTok\">TikTok<\/a> post for the<em> New York Times<\/em> opinion section. In her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion\/status\/1770863175937708279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>video<\/a>, Pike explained why she\u2019s optimistic as to why we won\u2019t experience a global nuclear holocaust. <\/p>\n<p>Identifying as a \u201cnuclear disarmament consultant,\u201d Pike offers the honorable intention of helping to prevent nuclear war. No problem there. The problem is Pike\u2019s suggestion that activists are most responsible for advancing the common ambition of preventing a nuclear war. These activists, Pike said, \u201care campaigners, some are lawyers, others are diplomats, others are academics, scientists, medical doctors and activists.\u201d Together, they have a \u201cconcrete plan\u201d to end nuclear weapons. Pike suggests, for example, \u201cOnly nine countries have nuclear weapons which means that over 180 countries have chosen not to have them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>While many countries have indeed chosen not to have nuclear weapons, they have only made that choice as a result of two other external factors. First, the various threats or inducements by other powers that they not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominee-claims-iran-not-pursuing-nuclear-weapons-contrary-to-evidence\/\" title=\"Biden Nominee Claims Iran Not Pursuing Nuclear Weapons, Contrary to Evidence\">pursue nuclear weapons<\/a>. Second, the nuclear umbrella already provided to them by allies. Consider the U.S. nuclear umbrella for NATO member states and Japan, for example. While Pike rightly points out the success of nuclear arms reduction treaties, she also extends this optimism beyond its credible reach. She ignores, for example, Russia\u2019s duplicity in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?p=559345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>signing and then unrepentantly breaching<\/a> its treaty obligations (a duplicity that extends to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/2856704\/us-fears-russia-preparing-to-put-nuclear-weapons-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>space<\/a>, biological, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/?p=1430124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"chemical\">chemical<\/a> weapons domains).<\/p>\n<p>She suggests, for example, that the nuclear nonproliferation treaty has succeeded by banning other nations from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-blocks-international-inspectors-from-nuclear-sites\/\" title=\"Iran Blocks International Inspectors From Nuclear Sites\">pursuing nuclear weapons<\/a>. But as with Iran and prospectively also Saudi Arabia, the NPT treaty only works if each country decides they want it to work. Many nations do want the NPT to work and do want to avoid the risks, costs, and stigma of pursuing nuclear weapons. Yet others, such as North Korea and Iran, plainly do not want the NPT to work. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This leads to the basic truth underpinning nuclear security since the Soviet Union first successfully tested a nuclear weapon in 1949. Namely, that it is the power of U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-alert-vladimir-putin-warns-of-nuclear-deterrent-readiness-as-ukraine-tensions-rise\/\" title=\"'High Alert' -- Vladimir Putin Warns of Nuclear Deterrent Readiness as Ukraine Tensions Rise\">nuclear deterrent forces<\/a> that most reduces the threat of nuclear war. Beyond any ability to manipulate them as agents of influence against the West (something that the KGB did with aplomb during the Cold War and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/2912083\/trump-decides-to-put-china-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>TikTok does today<\/a>), Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have little care for nuclear disarmament consultants. But they do have great care for American, British, and French nuclear ballistic missile (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/trumps-submarine-comments-would-be-stupid-not-appear-classified\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>nuclear attack<\/a>) submariners.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike nuclear disarmament consultants, after all, U.S. nuclear submariners have the unmatched ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/2914167\/putin-says-russias-nuclear-forces-are-superior-to-americas-hes-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>transform China and Russia from nation-states into desert wastelands<\/a>. They have that ability even in the highly unlikely event of a successful surprise first-strike attack by Beijing and\/or Moscow. And that, more than anything else, gives Putin and Xi incentive to avoid nuclear escalation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Pike sparked social media buzz with a New York Times TikTok post on nuclear weapons last Friday. She shared her optimism about avoiding a global nuclear catastrophe, labeling herself a &#8220;nuclear disarmament consultant.&#8221; Pike aims to prevent nuclear threats with her impactful message<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2724,"featured_media":2206556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/putin-1-1024x683.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/putin-1-1024x683.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}