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War runs like a faultline through this week’s headlines. Ukraine is on the brink of “disaster” as Russian troops mass in Crimea. Ceasefire in the Gulf brings a swift military campaign to a close. Years later, Hans Blix brands the Iraq war “illegal” in a political bombshell. Meanwhile, a new theatre of conflict emerges in the late nineties as cyberterror cripples networks across the US. Yet, there are flickers of détente too, as Soviet proposals to scrap intermediate nuclear missiles in Europe revive hopes of a Cold War breakthrough. All and more are charted across these front pages of The Independent.
3 March 1987 – US and Soviets in nuclear missile talks
US and Soviet negotiators agree to prolong talks on intermediate-range nuclear weapons, raising hopes of a breakthrough in efforts to eliminate an entire class of nuclear missiles in Europe. Moscow’s willingness to decoupl...
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