The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.
“As of today, the world has gone eight years, four months, and 11 days without a nuclear test … From now on, every day without a nuclear explosion will set a new record,” Dylan Spaulding, senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), wrote in a blog post Wednesday noting the milestone.
Wednesday’s watershed means the planet has seen its longest period without a nuclear explosion since the dawn of the nuclear era on July 16, 1945, when the US exploded an atomic device in Alamogordo, New Mexico – the…