Conversations That Matter: Nuclear threat rising

Are we once again on the cusp of nuclear catastrophe? It’s a concern that hung over the world for half a century during the Cold War.  At the peak in 1980, there were more than 61,000 nuclear weapons in the world.
Then U.S. president Ronald Reagan and then Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev recognized the threat posed by two powerful nations on hair trigger alert. Between them they had enough stored energy to destroy the world. In October 1986, in Reykjavik, Iceland, they