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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, May 18th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Every president since the 1960s has warned about the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction.

In 1961, in a speech at the UN, President John F. Kennedy urged the General Assembly

to jointly pursue the goal of abolishing nuclear weapons.

Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable.

Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment,

by accident or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they

abolish us. Less than a decade ago, President Barack Obama promised that the United States would

usher in a new era of nuclear disarmament.

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