In New York, the nuclear non-proliferation regime put to the test of a very fragmented planet

It was October 1962. The planet came very close to a nuclear war when the Cuban Missile Crisis between the two great powers of the Cold War: the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1958 the United States was ready to launch a nuclear attack to defend Taiwan, recently explained to Temps whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg behind the Pentagon Papers. Almost sixty years later, the risk of a nuclear conflict not only remains, but may have increased. Since the war in Ukraine triggered on February 24 by the Russian invasion, the master of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to use such a weapon.

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