New Zealand and our like-minded friends are fighting right now against a sort of collective amnesia by the nuclear weapon States and their allies: an idea that with all of the challenges the world currently faces—a war, a pandemic, economic woes, growing geostrategic rivalries—disarmament is just too hard. In short, we're presented with a catch-22 in that the current lack of stability and security renders us incapable of actually working towards greater security and stability. 