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War in Ukraine shakes up global nuclear order

2022-08-02T15:12:24.906Z


ANALYSIS - In a context of renewed tension in several regions of the world, the atomic threat is becoming commonplace.


If words count, those of the UN Secretary General will disturb the torpor of the summer and shake up the feeling that the war in Ukraine has been trivialized.

For Antonio Guterres, humanity, in fact, is only

"a miscalculation, a misunderstanding, nuclear annihilation".

“We have been extraordinarily lucky so far.

But luck is not a strategy or a shield to prevent geopolitical tensions from degenerating into nuclear conflict,”

he said at the opening of the conference of 191 signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). , which is held until August 26 at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

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  • Follow information on the war in Ukraine with the Figaro application

Since February 24, the shadow of nuclear has covered its veil threatening the war in Ukraine.

Senior Russian officials have claimed they could use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield.

Belarus has changed its Constitution to be able to accommodate Russian nuclear warheads on its soil.

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Source: lefigaro

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