Geneva — Days after calling US President Donald Trump "a moron", the head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nuclear disarmament group International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) warned on Friday that reckless leaders with atomic bombs made banning the weapons an immediate priority. Beatrice Fihn, the executive director of ICAN, took the swipe at the US president on Twitter earlier this week, before the group was awarded the Nobel. Fihn chuckled when asked about the tweet hours after ICAN was honoured for its non-proliferation efforts, making clear that it was meant as a playful reference to an identical quote reportedly attributed to US secretary of state Rex Tillerson. She said she regretted the comment, but doubled-down on criticism of Trump, arguing that his presidency has reinforced the need to rid the world of its most devastating weapons. "The election of President Donald Trump has made a lot of people feel very uncomfortable with the fact that he alone can authori...
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