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Moscow News – World – Nuclear Threat Warning

Nuclear Threat Warning
MOSCOW NEWS SYDNEY, Australia (AP) 24/10/2008 |– The world has not paid enough attention to the spread of nuclear weapons since the Cold War and could face devastation dwarfing the 9/11 attacks if the threat is not quickly curbed, the co-chair of a nuclear commission said Tuesday.Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said that while nuclear proliferation took a back seat to climate change and financial crises, countries such as India and Pakistan tested nuclear missiles, leaving the world vulnerable to an “avalanche” of new weapons.

“The last decade or so, the international community has been sleepwalking when it comes to this potentially catastrophic problem,” Evans told reporters during a break from the first meeting of the International Com­mission on Nuclear Non­pro­liferation and Disarmament.

“The scale of the havoc and the devastation that can be wreaked by one major nuclear weapons incident alone puts 9/11 – almost everything else – into the category of the insignificant,” said Evans, who is co-chair of the commission.

Moscow News – World – Nuclear Threat Warning

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October 24, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | weapons and war