President Vladimir Putin instructs Russia’s military to place nuclear forces on high alert, but is there reason to worry?
President Vladimir Putin conjured the specter of nuclear war during the last week’s fierce fighting in Ukraine, instructing Russia’s military to place nuclear forces on “high combat alert,” a “special regime of combat duty.”The last nuclear alert in a U.S.-Russian/Soviet crisis was by the United States during the 1973 Yom Kippur war, according to James Acton, who co-directs the
“I still think there’s a good chance that over the next few days we will see a change in Russia’s physical nuclear forces,” Acton said. “Partly this depends on who the audience is, the U.S. or Ukraine or both?”Russian tanks and troops crossed into Ukraine on Thursday after a night of shelling. But why is Russia attacking Ukraine? What is Putin’s goal?
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned Putin’s nuclear threats as “completely unacceptable.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki accused Putin of “manufacturing threats that don’t exist in order to justify further aggression.”about 3,700 “This is a classic example of how you get into a nuclear war. It’s very improbable that Russia is suddenly going to attack the U.S. or the U.S. is going to attack Russia. But we’ve had numerous examples of coming close to a nuclear war,” like the Cuban missile crisis, and, “We’ve had numerous cases since then where one side thought they detected a missile launch by the other side.”
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