Anti-nuclear Nobel

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 was awarded to ICAN, an anti-nuclear organization pushing for an international ban on nuclear weapons.  The Nobel committee has a history of awarding Peace Prizes to anti-nuclear advocates, including President Obama in 2009.

Reading about this, I was reminded of a very interesting counter-argument published in Time magazine in 2009 after Obama’s win.  The article argues that nuclear weapons themselves deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.  It is worth a read:  http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1929553,00.html

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