Over a thousand faith leaders in the United States sign a petition urging a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine and calling on the government to take a leadership role in ending the war.
Urgently negotiating an end to hostilities in Ukraine would prevent another world war, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger argued in an essay published on Friday.
China is expanding its nuclear force and is on pace to nearly quadruple the number of warheads it has by 2035, rapidly closing its gap with the United States, the Pentagon said in a report released Tuesday.
The world seems to be suffering from a case of nuclear fever, with Western media spending weeks seriously discussing the implications of a nuclear war with Russia.
