The situation in Ukraine demands restraint and a diplomatic solution, said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. “But once warfare in Ukraine has stopped, there must be a serious reckoning with the role nuclear weapons play in the military...
In February 2020, I listened to the Sam Harris podcast “Making Sense”. American philosopher and neuroscientist Harris sat down with Fred Kaplan, the national security columnist for Slate, and discussed the ever-present threat of nuclear war. Harris – one of the...
Allusions to the use of nuclear weapons at the very beginning of the war in Ukraine worried people in Eastern Europe. People like my grandmother in Bulgaria who still remembers what happened at Chernobyl. Is it really possible for the situation to escalate in this...
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of its neighbor country, the Western world showed its support to Ukraine in different ways. Governments dictated economical sanctions against Russia, people protested in the streets in several countries, and social media got...
How reality has become a subjective affair worldwide. When in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev, a British journalist born in the Soviet Union, published his acclaimed book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible,” Russia was very much of an exotic country, with no rules...