{"id":381860,"date":"2017-12-10T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=381860"},"modified":"2017-12-10T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:53:22","slug":"nuclear-war-one-tiny-tantrum-away-nobel-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/nuclear-war-one-tiny-tantrum-away-nobel-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear war ‘one tiny tantrum away’ – Nobel prize winner"},"content":{"rendered":"
The world faces a “nuclear crisis” from a “bruised ego”, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) has warned in an apparent reference to US-North Korea tensions.<\/p>\n
Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday, Ican’s executive director Beatrice Fihn said “the deaths of millions may be one tiny tantrum away”.<\/p>\n
“We have a choice, the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us,” she added.<\/p>\n
Tensions over North Korea’s weapons programme have risen in recent months.<\/p>\n
The open hostility between US President Donald Trump and the North Korean leadership under Kim Jong-un has at times descended into personal attacks this year.<\/p>\n
‘Irresponsible leaders’<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking at the ceremony in Oslo, Ms Fihn said “a moment of panic” could lead to the “destruction of cities and the deaths of millions of civilians” from nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n The risk of such weapons being used, she added, was “greater today than during the Cold War”.<\/p>\n Ican, a coalition of hundreds of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), has worked for a treaty to ban the weapons.<\/p>\n Prior to presenting the prize on Sunday, Nobel committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen offered a similar warning, saying that “irresponsible leaders can come to power in any nuclear state”.<\/p>\n Ms Reiss-Andersen commended Ican which, she said, had succeeded in highlighting the dangers of nuclear weapons as well as trying to eradicate them.<\/p>\n