AI and Nuclear Proliferation

As long predicted, the world order is shifting, away from American unipolar dominance and toward a system of increasingly bold middle powers and a new superpower and true U.S. peer in China. We are observing a diffusion of power in the international system and, with that, an emerging multipolar order characterized by the decline of U.S. global hegemony, increasing geopolitical complexity, new military capacities, and growing economic and financial partnerships (for example, the BRICS group). There can be little doubt that within the coming years, the nuclear club will add new members. More than ever, the lovers of peace and humanity need to be prepared to press the case for nuclear disarmament and robust arms control treaties that seriously limit nuclear arsenals and forestall the development of new nuclear weapons.