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The time for peace, justice and equality is well overdue
KATE HUDSON writes on CND's upcoming conference, bringing activists together to discuss the key challenges to world peace

THERE’S no doubt we are living in dangerous times — when the media routinely discusses the possibility of World War Three, something is going very badly wrong.

But we are also living in a time of great opportunity, and nowhere are these contradictions more starkly posed than in the struggle against nuclear weapons and war.

We have all been horrified by the aggressive rhetoric from US President Donald Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un — and the possibility of the war of words turning into catastrophic nuclear use.

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