The world's five leading nuclear powers have pledged to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons and do everything possible to ensure that there is never a nuclear war. This is clear from a joint statement issued on the eve of the review of the key Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. "Given the enormous consequences that the use of nuclear weapons would have, we declare that, although they exist, these weapons should be used only for protective purposes, namely to contain and prevent war," the statement said, signed by France, the United States, Russia, China, and the United Kingdom. "We declare that a nuclear war cannot be won and that it should never be started," the other five countries said in a joint statement. The declaration was published before the Tenth Conference on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons under the auspices of the United Nations.

Source: The Guardian January 04, 2022 07:07 UTC