A sunflower field is flourishing at a farm 100 miles west of Riga, the Latvian capital, near Kuldiga. “You can see here, all the flowers are full with honeybees, on the bigger flower on this ...

The sunflower thus became a symbol of nuclear disarmament and peace. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the modest hope I once embraced in 1996 is now gone. The flower that looks like ...