VIENNA – The United States and Britain on Monday for the first time attended a global conference discussing the risks posed by nuclear weapons, reversing their snubbing of previous rounds.The two countries are permanent UN Security Council members and among the nine states confirmed or believed to possess nuclear weapns, but shunned gatherings held in Norway last year and Mexico in 2014.Monday’s meeting featured some 800 delegates from close to 160 countries discussing the world’s 16,300 nuclear weapons.Other weapons holders present in Vienna were Pakistan and India, but Russia, France and China did not send official delegations, although a Chinese …read more
Source: AsiaOne
