Daily Mail: UN warns humanity is 'one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation' and we have been 'extraordinarily lucky so far' 

* UN head warned world faced 'nuclear danger not seen since height of Cold War' 

* Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was speaking at NPT conference in NY 

* It is conference of countries belonging to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 

* He called for world to find a new path towards 'a world free of nuclear weapons' 

* US, Britain and France condemned Russia for nuclear sabre-rattling in Ukraine 

UN head Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world faced 'a nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War' and was just 'one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.' 

'We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict,' Guterres said at the start of a conference of countries belonging to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). 

'Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,' he said, calling on nations to 'put humanity on a new path towards a world free of nuclear weapons.'  

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Update #1: Nuclear annihilation just one miscalculation away, UN chief warns -- BBC  

Update #2: World ‘one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’, UN chief says -- The Guardian/AFP  

Update #3: Guterres warns of 'nuclear annihilation' at conference over nuclear nonproliferation treaty (DW)  

WNU Editor: Russian President Putin is adding in his remarks .... Putin says ‘there can be no winners in nuclear war, it should never be started’ (Daily Mail).