Nuclear Weapons: How Concerned Should We Be About the Threat?

With the global nuclear arsenal likely to grow, recent events also suggest that the threat of a nuclear event is on the rise. That is concerning.

Sixty years ago this month, in October 1962, the world seemed on the brink of a nuclear war. An American U-2 spy plane had discovered evidence of nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba, just ninety miles off the southern coast of Florida and within range of major U.S. cities.

In response, the U.S. organized a naval qu…