James Brooke: Nuclear threat looms over Ukraine
In the fall of 1991, I visited Stanislau Shushkevich in his office in the cavernous Belarus Supreme Soviet. I asked the new leader of the one-month-old nation how many nuclear
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In the fall of 1991, I visited Stanislau Shushkevich in his office in the cavernous Belarus Supreme Soviet. I asked the new leader of the one-month-old nation how many nuclear
The last 30 years can be seen by Iran, North Korea, and others as an object lesson in the perils of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
The difficult plight of writers living under authoritarian rule has been well-documented over decades, with some enduring impossibly harsh treatment for their truth-telling and resistance to repression. Frequent targets to be silenced through arrest, torture, prison and even death, writers, says Karin Deutsch Karlekar of Pen America, “are paying a very heavy price for free expression, which of course is not a crime.”