World drifting closer to nuclear nightmare

Tensions haven't been this high since the Cuban missile crisis, when a very different president sat in the White House.

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has said her country won't seek UN Security Council action against North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, because 'the time for talk is over.'Eric Bridiers photograph courtesy of the U.S. Mission to the UN in Geneva

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

August 2, 2017

OTTAWA—There they were, young men and women in their early 20s going off to church to make their peace with God. Others were hoarding food and gasoline. Millions learned a new kind of fear. It was October 1962 and the world was lurching toward nuclear Armageddon. Today, the rising political and m...

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