GH's Nania Owusu-Ankomah appointed Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration, marking a huge milestone for Africa in global dispute resolution.
GH's Nania Owusu-Ankomah appointed Vice President of the London Court of International Arbitration, marking a huge milestone for Africa in global dispute resolution.
Sixty years ago the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. "I have not assumed that you or any other sane man would in this nuclear age, deliberately plunge the world into war which it is crystal clear no country could win and which could only result in catastrophic consequences to the whole world, including the aggressor," he writes.
Oscar Larralde vividly remembers hearing the explosions that downed an American spy plane over Cuba in 1962; his island nation was in the eye of a nuclear standoff between the United States and Soviet Union.
For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday -- and how skillful leadership averted it.
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