Although Russia and the US possess roughly 90% of the world’s nuclear warheads, their nuclear capabilities are less of a threat than is the danger of proliferation. It is this fear of a fast-growing number of nuclear-armed states, not the fine balancing of the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, that the case for Global Zero must address.
但这些问题都不是真正的问题。尽管俄罗斯和美国拥有世界核弹头总量的90%，但它们的核能力与核扩散相比算不上大威胁。《全球零核》必须解决的问题并不是制衡美国和俄罗斯的核武库，而是快速增加的有核国家数量。事实上，对于《全球零核》的“无核武的世界”目标的信誉来说，解决刺激敏感地区核竞赛背后的基本安全问题要比鼓励两大主要核大国做出榜样更加重要。