Nuclear proliferation meeting at UN tomorrow amid raging global wars

UNITED NATIONS, United States, April 25 (AFP): Signatories of the landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty will meet at the UN from Monday as hopes fade they can reach agreement and tensions soar between the atomic powers.
In 2022, during the last review of the treaty that is considered the cornerstone of non-proliferation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned humanity was "one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."
The situation has only worsened since then.
"I think there is a shared, if you will, sense of crisis by all states parties," said Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs.
"We don't have any bilateral arms control agreements between the two largest nuclear weapon states," she said referring to the February expiration of the New Start treaty between Moscow and Washington.
"We are also beginning to see quantitative increase of nuclear capabilities in all nuclear weapon states."
Nakamitsu said that mounting geopolitical tensions had halted the post-Cold War trend of disarmament.