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In his first speech before the General Assembly, the President also addressed nuclear non-proliferation and related security issues. The World’s Katy Clark will give us an update on the issue of containing the spread of nuclear weapons.
Perhaps one of the most effective preventions of nuclear conflict was expressed years ago by Henry Kissinger. That was the fact that the more interlinked our economies become the less likely we are to witness a major nuclear war. Unfortunately his statement predated the age of possible individual terrorist nuclear terrorist attacks.