A United Nations conference on reviewing the performance of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is set to open today in New York. The United States is expected to unveil long-classified statistics about the total size of the US nuclear arsenal. On Sunday, thousands of anti-nuclear activists rallied in New York calling for an abolition of nuclear weapons.

Aaron Tovish, longtime nuclear disarmament activist: “We’re simply saying that we cannot continue to play with fire any longer. Mayor Akiba uses the image of what would you think of parents who flooded the basement of their house with gasoline, in order to impress on their children how dangerous it is to play with matches. It’s a mad way of approaching security in the world. And we’re saying let’s remove this threat before we all suffer from it.”