The world can still step back from the abyss. The nuclear weapon states – the US, Russia, China, France and the UK – must lead the way
In 1945 nuclear weapons were used in armed conflict for the first and only time. 355,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two nuclear bombs.
Two. That number alone puts in stark perspective the world’s current arsenal of about 13,000 nuclear weapons.
Jacinda Ardern is the prime minister of New Zealand