Here in New York, the United Nations has opened a review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which seeks to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres opened the conference with a stark warning.

Secretary-General António Guterres: “We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy, nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict. Today humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. We need a treaty of nonproliferation of nuclear weapons as much as ever.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia of “dangerous nuclear saber rattling” over its invasion of Ukraine and blamed Iran and North Korea for harming efforts at nonproliferation. His comments come as the U.S. and the world’s eight other nuclear-armed nations continue to refuse to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted by the U.N. last year after it was ratified by more than 50 countries.