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"This week in New York, diplomats from almost every nation will convene for a
four-week review of the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT), the most comprehensive nuclear arms agreement in the world.
The stakes could hardly be higher.
Russia, Israel and the United States, all nuclear-armed, are conducting illegal
wars of aggression against countries without nuclear weapons. Nuclear-armed
India and Pakistan engaged in conflict last year across their disputed border,
raising the spectre of nuclear escalation.
In February, the last remaining agreement constraining Russian and US nuclear
weapons lapsed, with nothing to replace it. The two countries account for
nearly 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons.
And all nine nuclear-armed states are investing vast sums in modernising their
arsenals with more capable and dangerous weapons. Deployed nuclear weapons and
those on high alert, ready to be launched within minutes, are also rising.
All these developments have brought the Doomsday Clock, which assesses how
close the world is to existential catastrophe, closer to midnight than it has
ever been since 1947."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
