New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Ardern, The Guardian: The world stands on a nuclear precipice – we must avoid catastrophe
The world can still step back from the abyss. The nuclear weapon states – the US, Russia, China, France and the UK – must lead the way
In 1945 nuclear weapons were used in armed conflict for the first and only time. 355,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two nuclear bombs.
Two. That number alone puts in stark perspective the world’s current arsenal of about 13,000 nuclear weapons.
And yet in many ways the 13,000 weapons held globally represents progress; it’s less than a quarter of the more than 63,000 weapons in circulation in 1985 during the cold war.
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