Washington Must Adapt Its Playbook for a New Era of Nuclear Risk In 1964, China detonated a 22-kiloton nuclear device at a test site in the arid northwestern Xinjiang region—and the political fallout reached Washington. Worried about the prospect that many countries around the world would soon gain nuclear weapons, …

A scandal dubbed ‘Gungate’ has fired up Hungary’s election campaign, after the opposition’s defence expert, Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, a former chief of the military staff, was spotted at a party meeting with a suspicious-looking object bulging out of his back pocket. Photos quickly went viral on pro-Fidesz propaganda media, with government …

Outcome of trial may depend on whether James Rubin’s testimony – that Thaci was just a ‘front man’ for the KLA – is deemed credible. On Monday, September 17, a rhetorical thunderclap shook the trial of Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants at the Kosovo Special Court in The Hague, KSC, …