US wants Beijing to join a revised nuclear weapons treaty after expiration of a previous accord between US and Russia.

Yet January 14th marked the longest period humankind has gone without one or another part of the whole exploding one of these deadly weapons, stretching back to the last North Korean test in September, 2017. All other nuclear armed states conducted their last nuclear tests between 1990 and 1998 when Pakistan ceased its nuclear testing.

Russia has repeatedly struck Ukraine's energy infrastructure, risking a nuclear disaster.