Nuclear war

President Biden said Monday he does not believe Americans have reason to be concerned about nuclear war amid tensions with Russia over its invasion of ...

This is really a pattern that we've seen from President Putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don't exist in order to justify further aggression — and the global community and the American people should look at it through that prism," White House press secretary Jen PsakiJen PsakiUS national security official to travel to India to discuss Russia response White House communications director to give press briefing The Hill's Morning Report - Biden: `No' policy for Russia regime change MORE said on ABC on Sunday.Tags Russia Ukraine Vladimir Putin Jen Psaki Joe BidenShare to Facebook Facebook Facebook Share to Twitter TwitterTwitter President BidenJoe BidenTrump says he's uninterested in being Speaker if GOP retakes House Biden administration boosts support for antitrust efforts Energy & Environment — Oil companies rebuff House chairman MORE said Monday he does not believe Americans have reason to be concerned about nuclear war amid tensions with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.Biden responded to the question with a short "no" after delivering remarks at a Black History Month event at the White House.Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinRussian internet regulator announces fines against Google for 'dissemination of false content' Putin's actions in Ukraine are spilling north Ukraine fighting Russian Goliath: Why dictators are so bad at war MORE on Sunday put his country's deterrence forces, including nuclear arms, on high alert as Western nations ramped up sanctions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.The Biden administration has largely responded by avoiding further inflaming tensions, calling Putin's action an attempt to justify further aggression.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine hasn't gone to plan and has led to an economic backlash from the West. If Russian president Vladimir Putin feels backed into a ...

In an extreme case, White says this could stretch to a false-flag operation, such as the detonation of a small nuclear bomb outside Ukraine’s border, which is blamed on NATO. Bury puts the odds of a nuclear detonation as a result of this crisis at 20 per cent, but points out that it need not lead to all-out nuclear war. “In terms of military action, I think what we’ve seen so far is fairly limited. Nuclear weapons are also a possibility, but only as a last resort, says Galbreath. He and fellow academics and analysts assumed that the country would have been at level 2 of Russia’s four-level system already, given the situation in Ukraine. Nuclear conflict is a distinct but remote possibility as global tensions are ratcheted up by Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine, warn analysts.

It was the festive news nobody in the Western world wanted; the Russian invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Eve in 1979.

Please accept the good wishes of an old bomb bore, and I wish you well.” The Cold Warriors are old warriors and I have much more faith in the young. If you were at school, this meant seeking refuge under your desk and putting your hands on your head – the sort of futile gestures which were subsequently mocked in The Simpsons. Go out, enjoy yourself, make your voice known if you want with CND or one of the other protest groups, but for heaven’s sake, don’t despair. But many of eventually saw it in bootleg copies – it’s now on YouTube – more than a decade later and its impact was profound. “Better red than dead” was the mantra for those who were prepared to irradiate the Earth to defeat Communism.

Not since the Cold War have the stakes been so high, as experts rush to understand Putin's nuclear strategy and plot counter moves.

“If that were to occur, the order would be passed to the Nuclear Strategic Forces Command and Control Centre, where two officers would need to simultaneously carry them out.” He was honoured with the “Future of Life” award in 2017, almost two decades after his death, for averting a nuclear conflict. In October 1962, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Russian commander operating in a sweltering submarine with broken air-conditioning almost launched a tactical nuclear torpedo. The people who know him the least are saying it’s cheap talk”, warned Prof Michael McFaul, an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, on Sunday. When Putin called his commanders to the Kremlin on Sunday to order them to place Russia’s deterrent under a “special combat service regime”, it was unmistakably a paranoiac creature of the Cold War who was doing the talking. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of nuclear weapons across the globe has dropped drastically, from a peak of around 70,300 in 1986, to roughly 12,700 in early-2022. And even in the Cold War there were mistakes that brought nuclear armageddon close. President Vladimir Putin, of course, grew up a warrior of the Cold War and some analysts believe that he – and many in the security apparatus that surrounds and sustains him – never really left it behind. Western intelligence agencies are watching closely to see exactly what Putin’s order means in practice, but most have interpreted it as a shift to a general state of nuclear readiness. “Bombers at US bases would become more vulnerable without alerting, but US submarines and ICBMs (which have more than 75 per cent of US warheads and more than 90 per cent of launchers) would be fully capable of retaliating for a hypothetical attack on US bomber bases. Few born since the Soviet Empire collapsed in 1989 have had reason to contemplate the machinations of nuclear deterrence. It was a three-dimensional game of chess, in which psychology and, crucially, balance and predictability were as important as the nukes themselves.