Putin’s nuclear posturing requires west to tread extremely carefully
by Julian Borger in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#5WJKN)
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Successive generations have experienced what it is like to feel the shadow of nuclear annihilation loom over their daily lives, from the Cuban crisis of 1962, to the missile standoff in Europe in the 1980s. This is shaping up to be our turn.
I'll be honest - I'm nervous," Pavel Podvig, one of the world's leading experts on Russian nuclear forces, said after Vladimir Putin declared a special mode of combat duty of the deterrence forces".
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