Nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz says world has been lucky to avoid accidental weapon launch – and risk is growingThe world has been lucky so far to escape the launch of nuclear weapons through miscalculation,but the odds of such a catastrophic accident are increasing, according to the former US energy secretary Ernest Moniz.
Moniz, and a nuclear physicist who played a central role in securing a landmark non-proliferation agreement with Iran in 2015,said the margin for error in avoiding catastrophe was getting thinner because of the introduction of new, smaller weapons, or the broadening of circumstances in which their spend is being contemplated,and a lack of high-level communications between major nuclear weapons powers.
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Source: guardian.co.uk