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A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun — and the World Is Not Ready
For over three decades, the world took cautious steps away from the brink of nuclear catastrophe. Warheads were dismantled, treaties were signed, and deterrence was managed through diplomacy. That era is now over.
Bandung at 70: A Model for a World Falling Apart
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
—W.B. Yeats
When the Centre No Longer Holds
As the Canadian prime minister concluded his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 20 January 2026, the applause lingered, stretching just beyond the ordinary. Bold promises or grand unveilings did not spark it. Instead, he did something unusual:
No more Hiroshima. No more Nagasaki. No more war. No more hibakusha.
Eighty years ago, on 6 and 9 August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated by atomic bombs dropped by the United States—the only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. The blasts killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, including an estimated 38,000 children
Multipolar Africa: As the U.S. Steps Back, a New World Arrives
A quiet yet profound transformation is underway in Africa. While U.S. headlines remain preoccupied with Ukraine, Taiwan, and election cycles, a geopolitical reordering is playing out on a continent long viewed by Washington as peripheral — if it was seen at all.
After Recognition: The UN’s Next Reckoning on Slavery
The United Nations’ declaration of the transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” marked a moment of moral clarity on March 25, 2026. Yet, almost immediately, geopolitical tensions and diverging moral philosophies emerged over what should follow.