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Entrevista con Dan Smith, director de Sipri, uno de los principales think tank del mundo en seguridad y conflictos

On 6 and 9 August this year, we will mark the 80th anniversaries of the two occasions on which nuclear weapons have ever been used in war – the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.* Humanity has perpetrated and experienced a great deal of harm in the past eight decades but nuclear weapons have not been used again. Despite today's widespread and intensifying perception of nuclear risk, the nuclear taboo survives.

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