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If US officials hope to make progress in their nuclear negotiations with North Korea, one task cannot be ignored: ending Pyongyang's highly enriched uranium programme. It would be a serious mistake, in the wake of the agreement reached in the six-party talks last month, to downplay the significance of the HEU programme.

Shaping a stable world order requires political leadership. And leadership requires a strong and clear sense of realpolitik.

NATO should define its overarching strategic objective in Ukraine to be that “Russia should not gain territory through nuclear coercion” and offer to negotiate on a set of strategic stability arrangements that addresses the concerns implicit in previous proposals by Russia.

Not enough says Zelensky

A US Senator once described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, perhaps facetiously, as “a Winston Churchill in a tee shirt”.And last month, when he addressed the US Congress – with the

Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will “make use of all weapon systems available to us” if Russia’s territorial integrity is threatened.

As long as nuclear weapons deter the potential rivals successfully, why should these weapons be used

PARIS: Banished from public consciousness for decades, the nightmare of nuclear warfare has surged back to prominence with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the erosion of the Cold War global security architecture.

Banished from public consciousness for decades, the nightmare of nuclear warfare has surged back to prominence with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the erosion of the Cold War global security architecture.

How Putin has revived fear of a nuclear war