{"id":40288,"date":"2022-01-04T04:54:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/five-nations-pledge-avoid-nuclear-war"},"modified":"2022-01-04T04:54:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:54:34","slug":"five-of-worlds-most-powerful-nations-pledge-to-avoid-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40288","title":{"rendered":"Five of world\u2019s most powerful nations pledge to avoid nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US, Russia, China, the UK and France who are permanent members of the UN security council agree \u2018nuclear war cannot be won\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Five of the world\u2019s most powerful nations have agreed that \u201ca nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought\u201d in a rare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/01\/03\/p5-statement-on-preventing-nuclear-war-and-avoiding-arms-races\/\">joint pledge<\/a> to reduce the risk of such a conflict ever starting.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge was signed by the US, Russia, China, the UK and France, the five nuclear weapons states recognised by the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) who are also the five permanent members of the UN security council. They are known as the P5 or the N5.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/03\/five-nations-pledge-avoid-nuclear-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US, Russia, China, the UK and France who are permanent members of the UN security council agree \u2018nuclear war cannot be won\u2019Five of the world\u2019s most powerful nations have agreed that \u201ca nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought\u201d in a rare joint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,526,441,419,52,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-france","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40288\/revisions\/40289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}