Let's push for eradication of nuclear weapons now

Nuclear bomb explosion at Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 [File]

Once again, Russia has hinted that it could resort to nuclear weapons if pushed to the wall in its ongoing war with Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses NATO of engaging in a proxy war with Russia by supplying weapons to Ukraine and warned that "the risks [of a Third World War] now are considerable".

This is not the first such threat. In February President Vladimir Putin warned countries that would consider interfering in the war in Ukraine of "consequences greater than any you have faced in history". That was interpreted to mean a nuclear attack.