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Contents
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On the cover
The world this week
7 A summary of political
and business news
Leaders
9 Atomic weapons
A new nuclear era
10 The world economy
America’s next recession
11 Colombia
Into the unknown
11 Coral and the climate
Great barriers
12 The Platinum Jubilee
Put out more bunting
Letters
14 On electoral reform,
wearable devices, India,
business and pleasure
Briefing
16 Nuclear weapons
A taboo-busting time
Britain
19 The Supreme Court
20 Boris Johnson’s future
21 Victorian market halls
22 Child offender, adult
criminal
22 The electricity grid
24 Treating flu like covid-
Europe
25 The battle of
Severodonetsk
26 Attacks on Kharkiv
27 America sends missiles
27 Germany’s dithering
28 Eco-bridges in France
29 Charlemagne Europe’s
new sanctions on Russia
United States
31 Not-so-super markets
32 Mall makeovers
33 la’s mayoral contest
33 Pro-choice clergy
34 Arguments after Uvalde
35 Policing differently
36 LexingtonThe zombie
nuclear deal
The Americas
37 Climate change in Peru
38 Peruvian floods
39 Colombia’s election
Middle East & Africa
41 Somalia’s new president
42 Congo’s rival neighbours
43 Poor courts in Kenya
44 Israel and Morocco
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By invitationTurkey’s
president, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, explains why
his country is blocking
Sweden and Finland from
joining nato.
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With his threats to use the
bomb, Russia’s president has
overturned the nuclear order:
leader,page 9.The war in
Ukraine is unlikely to go
nuclear. But it is increasing
the risk that some future
conflict will: briefing,page 16.
Ukrainian troops face
encirclement as Russia
advances,page 25.Iran’s
defunct nuclear-containment
pact has contaminated
American politics: Lexington,
page 36
America’s next recession
A downturn looks likely. If it
happens it will be mild but
messy: leader, page 10,and
analysis, page 63
Genetics, germs and saving
reefsTo save some ecosystems,
humans must intervene more,
not less: leader, page 11.Corals
are threatened by global
warming. How pre-emptive
tinkering by people might be
able to save them, page 70
China’s overrated spies
They are good at hacking and
harassing dissidents. But in other
areas China’s spooks have a lot
to learn, page 50
Don’t take your whole self to
workIt is a bad idea: Bartleby,
page 61
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