United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday of a possible increase in nuclear arsenals in a “new and alarming arms race” not seen in decades, with weapons that are faster, more accurate and stealthy. . .
At a high-level plenary meeting marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Guterres recalled the “fundamental truth” that the only real way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons “is their elimination.”
“Any use of nuclear weapons – at any time, in any place and in any context – will provoke a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions. This is not hyperbole. This is a timeless message from the hibakusha – the survivors of Hiroshima. and Nagasaki,” he said, referring to the Japanese cities that were the target of two North American atomic bombs in 1945.