Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Nikolai Ott
“When asked who was afraid of a nuclear war, only two students in the room raised their hands: a Swiss woman and a British man. The rest of the students, mostly South Koreans, looked at most a bit resigned, and the South Korean professor nodded in agreement as he noted the absence of hands. ‘You see,’ the shaven-headed Korean now turned to the Swiss woman with a bright smile, ‘everyone here knows war, but we are still optimists.’ Perhaps it was exactly that moment, this casual exchange in a university seminar on the nuclear weapons regime, that was the most symptomatic encounter of my travels in the past year.” (06/06/25)
https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-3-issue-2/the-unknown-wisdom-of-the-small-nation/