- The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, on Sunday said the world was "one tiny tantrum away" from a nuclear crisis.
- The group also said a country's "moment of panic" could lead to the "destruction of cities and the deaths of millions of civilians."
- Tensions between the US and North Korea have spiked, bringing forth the possibility of nuclear retaliation into the global spotlight.
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Nobel Peace Prize winners warn the world is 'one tantrum away' from nuclear crisis
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons warned that a "moment of panic" could destroy millions.
The world is "one tiny tantrum away" from a nuclear crisis, said on Sunday as it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
"We have a choice: the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us," the group's
Speaking at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway, Fihn said the threat of nuclear weapons being used was "greater today than in the Cold War" and warned that a country's "moment of panic" could lead to the "destruction of cities and the deaths of millions of civilians."
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Referring to current relations between the international community and North Korea, Nakamitsu said: "
Last week, the White House national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, said the chances for war on the peninsula were growing,CNN reported.
"I think it's increasing every day, which means that we are in a race, really, we are in a race to be able to solve this problem," McMaster said in a conference in California, when asked whetherNorth Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile launch had increased the chance of war.
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