Day 1,886: avert, adversary, fray

In so doing, it helps avert destabilising nuclear proliferation. This logic has kept America, and perhaps even its adversaries, safer for 80 years. In a dangerous world, it would be reckless to let America’s nuclear umbrella fray.

Reluctantly, America eyes building more nuclear weapons

Artwork of the day 
The marchion of gamb avert (sketch)
Gerolamo_Induno
Original Title: El marchion di gamb avert (bozzetto)
Date: 1848; Milan, Italy
Style: Romanticism
Genre: sketch and study,literary painting
Media: oil, cardboard
Dimensions: 24 x 19.5 cm

Word of the day 
avert: to prevent something bad from happening:
adversary: an enemy:
fray: to become or to cause the threads in cloth or rope to become slightly separated, forming loose threads at the edge or end:

Quote of the day
“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”

― Akira Kurosawa