The world is perilously close to blundering into a nuclear catastrophe, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned at the opening of a high-level conference on Monday to review the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, a cornerstone of global nonproliferation.
Nations have a sense of "false security" stockpiling 13,000 nuclear weapons when "humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation," he told the conference, which was originally scheduled for 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is slated to end on August 26.
