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Paul Anton Krueger, New York
It was a drastic warning from a qualified mouth, apparently intended to shake up the states gathered in New York: The world is in a “time of nuclear danger such as it has not been since the height of the Cold War,” said the UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday at the launch of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. “Humanity is in danger of forgetting the lessons forged in the terrible fires of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” The world is just one misunderstanding or miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.