{"title": "Should the United States Pursue a Nuclear Damage-Limitation Capability?", "start": "2026-10-29T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A seminar at King's College London on United States nuclear strategy, asking whether the country should pursue a nuclear damage-limitation capability. It is hosted by the Centre for Nuclear Strategy and Security together with the Department of War Studies and led by Dr Charles Glaser, a Senior Fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT. The talk argues that a damage-limitation capability is infeasible, unnecessary and dangerous, and that a countervalue strategy relying on threatening an adversary's infrastructure, economy and population could provide an excellent deterrent and reduce risks of nuclear escalation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/should-the-united-states-pursue-a-nuclear-damage-limitation-36785/", "official_url": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/should-the-united-states-pursue-a-nuclear-damage-limitation-capability", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2963ec3b53ad3d23edfb237bc520a2a5d75bfeff29b8380aff406f31a6c39645-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "King's College London, Strand Campus", "address": "Strand, WC2R 2LS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "'Welfare not Warfare - the True Way to Keep Safe' - Brixton public meeting", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T17:00:00Z", "place": "Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament Office", "address": "Holloway Road 162, N7 8DQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/cold-war", "society/peace"], "description": "A public meeting titled 'Welfare not Warfare - the True Way to Keep Safe' where people discuss how to prioritise health, homes, learning and social care over war and nuclear weapons. 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Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, marks the launch of an updated edition of his book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. He argues that democratic capitalism, the pairing of free markets and free elections, is under attack, citing Donald Trump's tariffs, Elon Musk's alignment with far right parties and the rise of extreme parties worldwide, and makes the case for why the combination of both democracy and capitalism is needed more than ever. 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