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The world just passed a surprisingly positive milestone on nuclear weapons

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Photographers and camera crew on Eniwetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Koa nuclear test as part of Operation Hardtack, a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1958. | Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite fiction, but we did just pass one notable milestone of global peace and stability: As of this month, the world has gone the longest time without a nuclear explosion since the atomic era began more than 80 years ago. The last nucl...