Can China lead the world on reducing the threat of nuclear war?

Tom Plate says while Obama's visit to Hiroshima is welcome, Xi Jinping has a real opportunity to steer the world away from the use of nuclear arms as a defence option Way back when, rather long ago, a youngish, greenish post-graduate student, obsessing about nuclear war, devoted his first book to it. "Doomsday," I declaimed in Understanding Doomsday: A Guide to the Arms Race for Hawks, Doves and People , "the moment when all the energies of all the nuclear bombs are released over the heads of the inhabitants of the earth.

Erdogan to brief G-20 leaders on coup attempt, Gulenists fight

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will use the upcoming G-20 Summit in China as an opportunity to brief the world's most powerful leaders on the failed coup attempt on July 15 and the country's ongoing fight against the Fethullahist Terror Organization , his spokesman has said. "Our president will find the opportunity to inform his counterparts on the coup attempt and fight against FETO during the G-20 Summit and his bilateral talks," Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kal n told reporters at a press conference on Aug. 31. The G-20 Summit will be held in Guangzhou, China on Sept.