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World faces new nuclear arms race, says UN atomic energy chief
Grossi said proliferating wars could push up to 20 countries toward nuclear arms as confidence in the Non-Proliferation Treaty weakens.
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Conflict and instability could cause up to 20 countries to seek a bomb, says the world's leading nuclear chief Rafael Grossi.
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, warned this Monday that the increase in conflicts and global instability could lead to several members of the Treaty on Nuclear Non-Proliferation (NPT) breaking the pact in a nuclear arms race. This, according to Grossi, would open the door to “a world with 20 or more nuclear-weapon States”, compared to the nine countries that currently possess them, a scenario…
"Some important countries in Europe, Asia Minor and the Far East have mentioned this and this possibility is being discussed publicly," Grossi said, referring to an idea he has mentioned as "friendly proliferation." "All this worries me deeply because I believe that a world with 20 or more nuclear-weapon states would be extremely dangerous," he warned in an interview with the British daily 'The Daily Telegraph'.
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