The United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, has said that a small misunderstanding could cause the nuclear annihilation of humanity. His words came as the US, Britain and France urged Russia to stop 'its dangerous nuclear rhetoric and behaviour'. Guterres was speaking at the opening of a key Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty conference in New York. He warned that the world faced 'a nuclear danger not seen since the height of the cold war'
World one misstep from ‘nuclear annihilation’, says UN chief
The United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, has said that a small misunderstanding could cause the nuclear annihilation of humanity. His words came as the US, Britain and France urged Russia to stop 'its dangerous nuclear rhetoric and behaviour'. Guterres was speaking at the opening of a key Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty conference in New York. He warned that the world faced 'a nuclear danger not seen since the height of the cold war'