U.N. Atomic Chief Warns of Growing Nuclear Risks

The head of the United Nations nuclear company gave a pointy warning Tuesday about rising nuclear dangers, saying that Iran’s actions risked a regional nuclear arms race and that Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian nuclear sites threatened to imperil the company’s skill to make sure nuclear materials wasn’t being misused.

In a wide-ranging speech on the Australian National University in Canberra, Rafael Grossi, the top of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned that “we are reaching a defining moment for global nuclear nonproliferation,” wherein the dangers of the unfold of nuclear weapons “pose a problem for everyone.”