ABSTRACT
Nuclear weapons have triggered a great debate on world political order across three phases and with three main positions: repair, reform and revolution. The revolutionary answer, nuclear one-worldism (NOW), argues for major world order changes arising from the intersection of new knowledges about the material world and a cascade of technological empowerments in collision with basic and long-standing human goals of survival, security and well-being. Early NOW thinkers viewed a world state as the necessary solution, but more recent versions advocate deep arms control and nuclear zero. NOW 2.0 has been strengthened by discoveries of biospheric vulnerability to major nuclear war. New historical evidence indicates nuclear war has been more likely than the repair and reform school believed. NOW thinking helped end the Cold War. A Whole Earth Security system would de-weaponise the planetary commons, have test bans, ‘open labs,’ circumscribed sovereign immunity, and educational and ritual components.
