What is a Cold War? The anticipation of a Hot War

The fourth part of the documentary “Why Do We Not Fear Nuclear War?”

This part is devoted to the conference of the Luxembourg Forum held in Rome on June 4-5, 2019.

This conference has brought together the most competent experts, the heads of five major international organizations engaged in studying nuclear arms control issues, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Global Zero, the Russian International Affairs Council, and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Can the North Korea sell nuclear wares to terrorist groups?
What are the perspectives of the situation with Iran and its nuclear program?
Is there a risk that nuclear material can fall into the hands of non-state actors?
Is the Third World War possible and can an agreement between the US and Russia be reached in the context of quite intense political confrontation?

Watch the video and you’ll get answers to these and many other questions and will know the opinion of many leading world experts.

The influence of the Luxembourg Forum is based on a high-level analytic consideration. The Forum brings together the most reputable foreign and military policy experts from various countries. Outstanding scientists attended the conference, along with diplomats, political figures and military experts who previously held high ranking posts as foreign affairs and defense ministers.

Participants of the International Luxembourg Forum conference in Rome met with the Vatican Secretary of State his eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin as part of the dialogue and joint initiatives between the Luxembourg Forum and the Holy See.

Viatcheslav Kantor, President of the Luxembourg Forum: “The idea that’s especially close to my heart is that we have forgotten how to negotiate in principle, we are not prepared to hear each other, I mean Russia and the United States. We don’t understand that to say no to each other is a deconstructive position.”

William Perry, former US Secretary of Defense: “It appears that the Trump administration intends to let New START expire in 2020, rather than extend it, or negotiate a follow on treaty. If that happens, there will be, for the first time in almost fifty years, no agreed limit on nuclear weapons; and there will be no bilateral talks underway on how to limit nuclear dangers. This has become the new normal for arms control treaties, which I call the new abnormal, and it has happened in just two years.

Joan Rohlfing, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative: “We need to change the way we think about the risks of nuclear use. We have new risks and new problems but old thinking. The burden of change starts with us.”

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In order of the appearance

1:05 Mark Fitzpatrick, former Executive Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies – Americas (USA)
3:27 Joan Rohlfing, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (USA)
3:45 Igor Ivanov, Corresponding Member Russian Academy of Science, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister (1998-2004)
4:42 Vladimir Lukin, Professor, Council of the Federation Member
5:05 Roald Sagdeev, Academician Russian Academy of Sciences, US National Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy
6:07 John Carlson, former Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office
7:53 Linton Brooks, former Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security (USA)
11:22 Victor Esin, Colonel General, Former Chief of the General Staff Strategic Missile Forced (1994-1996)
17:20 Eugene Rumer, Director Russia and Eurasia Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA)
25:48 William Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
29:54 Viatcheslav Kantor, President of the International Luxembourg Forum