NATO-Russia confrontation has become topical again due to the threat of nuclear war, wrote the former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev in his article published in Time. According to him, the Russian and the US leaders should take an initiative to completely ban the nuclear war, reports RBC.

He stressed, that today "there is no more urgent issue than a new arms race and militarization." "I urge organizations responsible for international peace and security, the members of the UN Security Council, to take the first step," Gorbachev said, offering to adopt a resolution on the prohibition of nuclear conflicts.

"I think that the initiative to adopt such a resolution should proceed from Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the heads of states, that manage more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear arsenal," Gorbachev said.