Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats seem intended to divert the world’s attention and raise heart rates, wrightr notes. “He would not say those things if the war wasn’t going badly,” a former U.S. ambassador to Russia said.
, “should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you haveexperienced in your history.” He said that Russia “is today one of the most powerful nuclear states.”with his long-serving defense minister, Sergey Shoygu, and the legendary military strategist General Valery Gerasimov. Putin sat at the head of a long table fit for a banquet. His commanders, who looked like deer caught in the headlights, clustered together at the distant far end.
Putin’s nuclear sabre rattling seems like an epic bluff, intended to divert the world’s attention and raise heart rates. It appears to reflect weakness rather than strength, after the mediocre early performance of his military. “He would not say those things if the war wasn’t going badly,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told me.
by Belarus in December to change its constitution and allow Russia to deploy tactical nuclear weapons within the country, which borders Ukraine and also threemembers—Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. I asked Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, if the world was reëntering the nuclear age. “We never left it,” he replied. “But it’s a new part of the nuclear age.
There are some thirteen thousand nuclear weapons on Earth, in the arsenals of nine countries. The number is down by about eighty per cent since the Cold War ended, yet today the world’s system to limit existing nuclear arsenals and prevent their spread “is in chaos,” Kelsey Davenport, a nuclear-arms-control specialist,
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