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UK security advisor warns on risk of nuclear conflict
The world was safer during the Cold War than it is today. This is according to Sir Stephen Lovegrove, the UK’s national security advisor.
According to Lovegrove, nuclear powers communicated with each other much more frequently during the Cold War, and rival powers also understood each other more.
Lovegrove, speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, said that regular negotiations between the West and the Soviet Union meant that each had a strong understanding of the other side’s doctrine and capabilities. Said Lovegrove: ‘This gave us both a higher level of confidence that we would not miscalculate our way into nuclear war. Today, we do not have the same foundations with others who may threaten us in the future – particularly China.’
He also said that the risk of conflict was growing, due to Russian aggression as well as the expansion of the Chinese nuclear arsenal.
‘In the obligatory Churchill quotation, we want jaw-jaw, not war-war,’ Lovegrove added.
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