What do we need to know about nuclear weapons and Ukraine? | Emma Belcher | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon

When nuclear rhetoric heats up, people reach out to Dr. Emma Belcher for advice on what's really going on and how we should respond. In this remarkable talk, Emma delivers an overview of the situation in Ukraine, what we might expect, and offers a vision for how we can try to ensure peace both now and in the future. Because the only safe world is a world in which nuclear weapons are never deployed. Emma Belcher, PhD is president of Ploughshares Fund. Prior to arriving at Ploughshares, Emma spent nearly a decade at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she led the foundation’s Nuclear Challenges grantmaking program. There, she developed and built the foundation’s Nuclear Challenge Big Bet team—from ideation to planning to management of a nearly $20 million budget.

Emma served as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She also served as an advisor in Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on national security and international affairs and as a public affairs officer at the Australian embassy in Washington, DC. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx