Working together to prevent nuclear conflict in Europe

Reducing and eliminating nuclear risks is an existential interest that all countries share, write Des Browne, Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor S Ivanov, and Sam Nunn

When leaders from across the Euro-Atlantic region meet at the Munich Security Conference this weekend, the “win-lose” framework defining relations between Western countries and Russia will be entering its fifth year. The longer this continues, the tighter the resulting knot of distrust will become — and the greater the risk of the ultimate “lose-lose” scenario: A military conflict. We must work together to cut this knot, and now.