The day a teenage Raila was caught in a nuclear war standoff

CORD leader Raila Odinga and his security were teargased outside the Anniversary towers, Nairobi, on April 25, 2016. [File, Standard]

The world was nervous as itchy fingers in Kyiv and Moscow dangerously danced around the key to mass deaths and doomsday. Russia has menacingly told the world that any weapon fired from a European country towards it will be a declaration of war and could end with the damnation of the world.