‘There should be no nuclear weapons in the world’: envoys confront disarmament amid global sabre rattling 

Global superpowers have explicitly and implicitly threatened the use of nuclear weapons, say ambassadors.
South African High Commissioner to Canada Rieaz Shaik says states that possess nuclear weapons are acting with 'impunity.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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BY NEIL MOSS
October 7, 2026

Geopolitical upheavals and superpower sabre rattling have some foreign diplomats in Ottawa looking for a pathway to reduce the world’s global nuclear arsenal amid the collapse of a foundational arms control agreement. 

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