Lingering Shadows

The 60th anniversary commemorating the end of the second world war in Europe was recently observed, yet there has been little introspection of the dangers the war unleashed; the threats that still persist, in more virulent a form. The nuclear race between the two original superpowers that began towards the end of the war continues unabated. But the post-cold war world is now a more vulnerable one, as several more countries continue to build on and develop their own nuclear stockpiles.