North Korea's Kim seeks to become nuclear 'superpower'
LONDON, Oct 11 - The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects a widely held fear that the planet has never been closer to nuclear war .
And North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared this week that his country would accelerate efforts to become "a military superpower and a nuclear power". The Federation of American Scientists estimates he already has 50 nuclear warheads. The accolade comes three days before NATO kicks off its annual "Steadfast Noon" nuclear exercise, with F-35A fighter jets and B-52 bombers among some 60 aircraft from 13 nations taking part.
For decades - thanks in large part to the work of Nihon Hidankyo - the destruction unleashed on the two Japanese cities was widely seen as a lesson from history that using nuclear weapons again was too appalling to contemplate. On the day of the invasion, Putin warned Russia's enemies they would suffer "consequences that you have never faced in your history" if they tried to get in its way. In September 2022, he described the U.S. nuclear attacks on Japan as having created a "precedent".
Arms control experts say conducting a nuclear test - something only North Korea has done this century - would be a dramatic escalatory signal. Putin says Russia won't test unless the United States does, and that it can win the war in Ukraine without resorting to nuclear weapons.
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