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UN chief warns humanity 'one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation'

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UN head Antonio Guterres warns that humanity is "just one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation," with the world facing a threat "not seen since the height of the Cold War." Guterres opens the start of a conference of countries belonging to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by saying, "we have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict." SOUNDBITE

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