ABSTRACT
Resilience means an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change, to be able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. Every effort must be made to obtain a Nuclear Weapons Convention to ban the production, as well as the use, of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons must be formally declared illegal; any use anywhere for any reason must be codified as a crime against humanity. The deadlock in the operation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty combined with the increasing danger of the use of nuclear weapons demand a focused effort to start building the architecture to support a nuclear weapon-free world. A deep analysis of the true reason for the continued existence of nuclear weapons leads into the terrain of the human psyche. The architecture for a nuclear weapon-free world—the strengthening of international law and verification systems—runs up against a primal need to change human thinking.
