Simon Tisdall is absolutely right (China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon – and Starmer barely noticed, 1 February). From our prime minister to the person in the street, no one is talking about nuclear weapons, yet nuclear weapons states are busy modernising their arsenals and, in China’s case, increasing the numbers. Treaties supposed to limit nuclear proliferation have failed or are failing. In recent decades, the incidence of false alarms has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war more than once. The goal of a world without nuclear weapons is vanishingly far away.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2026 22:52 UTC