As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition?

"It might have been very different. In June 1945, a group of University of Chicago nuclear physicists led by James Franck told President Harry Truman that an unannounced atomic bomb attack on Japan was “inadvisable”. Detonating the new weapon would trigger an uncontrollable worldwide arms race, they predicted. Their warnings were rejected, their report suppressed. Now, the UN is trying again."

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As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian