{"id":133566,"date":"2022-01-04T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/china-us-uk-france-and-russia-pledge-to-avoid-nuclear-war"},"modified":"2022-01-04T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T04:22:49","slug":"china-us-uk-france-and-russia-pledge-to-avoid-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/china-us-uk-france-and-russia-pledge-to-avoid-nuclear-war","title":{"rendered":"China, US, UK, France and Russia pledge to avoid nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-us-uk-france-and-russia-pledge-to-avoid-nuclear-war2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Five of the world\u2019s largest nuclear powers pledged on Monday to work together toward \u201ca world without nuclear weapons\u201d in a rare statement of unity amid rising East-West tensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,\u201d said the joint statement, which was issued simultaneously by the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and France. \u201cAs nuclear use would have far-reaching consequences, we also affirm that nuclear weapons \u2014 for as long as they continue to exist \u2014 should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also stressed the importance of preventing conflict between nuclear-weapon states from escalating, describing it as a \u201cforemost responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude00 Five of the world\u2019s largest nuclear powers pledged on Monday to work together toward \u201ca world without nuclear weapons\u201d in a rare statement of unity amid rising East-West tensions. \u201cA nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,\u201d said the joint statement, which was issued simultaneously by the United States, Russia, China, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}