“The clouds that parted following the end of the Cold War are gathering once more. We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict. Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.”
Vigils held to mark a year since October 7
Mourners are marking the one year anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 massacre in Israel, as violence engulfs the Middle East and Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza strip continues a year on.