Can we achieve nuclear adulthood?
"I'll never tire of repeating: We need to demilitarize world affairs, international politics and political thinking."
What if a world leader -- someone with extraordinary power, even, my God, control over nuclear weapons -- were to talk this way? Well, this is as close as we can get for now. The words are those of Mikhail Gorbachev, writing recently in Time magazine about the pandemic and its revelation of "how fragile" our planet is.
"What we urgently need now is a rethinking of the entire concept of security. Even after the end of the Cold War, it has
