https://johnmenadue.com/nuclear-deterrence-is-a-dangerous-gamble-and-its-best-we-dont-rely-on-it/Please phone email tweet or text your MP,  PM Albanese, FM Wong.

Let them know we the people want them to follow through with the promise to sign the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons passed into UN International Law 2 years ago. The Doomsday Clock has moved from 100 to 90 seconds to midnight indicating the threat level from nuclear war and climate change. 

Almost every one of our neighbours in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific have signed this treaty. The South Pacific and Australian legacy of nuclear weapons testing remains fresh in the minds of many, and our regional partners would certainly like Australia to support the full elimination of these most destructive of all weapons of mass destruction.

The problem seems to be the view that ‘we need nuclear weapons for deterrence’. But this is a risky gamble. Nuclear deterrence might have played a role in preventing major state warfare in the Cold War, but it cannot be relied on to protect us indefinitely. Too often, nuclear deterrence is touted as a certainty, a guarantee that we can rely on. In truth, we have come perilously close to nuclear war on a number of occasions, and our luck will not hold out forever.