Increasing integration of the
global financial and business sectors and the global need to combat climate
change by restricting carbon emissions are just two reasons why the impotence
of the UN, which has not touched the doctrine of absolutist national sovereignty,
has become increasingly problematic. The risk to nuclear technology in power-generation
from war argues strongly for not only the obsolescence of war between countries,
but also the benefits of transferring some governmental sovereignty from the
nation-states to a global-level government, which the UN has never been. The case
of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, in
the midst of Russia’s invasion in 2024 is a case in point.
The full essay is at "Nuclear Power: Rendering War Too Dangerous."
