Russia's nuclear saber-rattling overshadows major disarmament confab

Calls for efforts to free the world from the threat of nuclear weapons marked the start of a major four-week disarmament conference at the U.N. headquarters on Monday, reflecting heightened concerns over the risk of a nuclear conflict amid Russia's war on Ukraine."Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation," U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, which Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also attended as the first Japanese leader to do so.Kishida, representing the only country to…READ FULL ARTICLE