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Welcome (Back) to the Nuclear Age Nuclear Weapons

Welcome (Back) to the Nuclear Age

In an era defined by climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, one apocalyptic potential fell off many Americans’ radars: nuclear weapons. But in the bitter February twilight, Russian President Vladimir Putin put them squarely back in the center of discourse when he invaded Ukraine—and appeared to threaten anyone who intervened…
bubmag
March 3, 2022
Report: An “Increasingly Frustrated” Putin, a Madman With Nuclear Weapons, Is Lashing Out at His Inner Circle Nuclear Weapons

Report: An “Increasingly Frustrated” Putin, a Madman With Nuclear Weapons, Is Lashing Out at His Inner Circle

In the year 2022, there’s a lot out there to be scared about—the next COVID-19 variant, the news that we have a “brief and rapidly closing window” before parts of the earth are uninhabitable, etc.—but probably the most pressingly scary, in the hierarchy of things people are shitting their pants…
bubmag
March 1, 2022
Five ways Putin’s nuclear decision could misfire in disaster for us all Nuclear Weapons

Five ways Putin’s nuclear decision could misfire in disaster for us all

Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the defence minister and the chief of the military to put nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty”, possibly referring to readying tactical nuclear forces. This could of course be a bluff, but Putin has demonstrated on numerous occasions he has…
bubmag
March 1, 2022
Ukraine crisis: Despite Russia’s threats, NATO sees no need to change nuclear alert level Nuclear Weapons

Ukraine crisis: Despite Russia’s threats, NATO sees no need to change nuclear alert level

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Published: Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 19:29 Lask air base (Poland), Mar 1: Despite Russia's threats, the chief of the NATO on Tuesday said that the alliance sees no need to change its nuclear weapons alert level. Speaking…
bubmag
March 1, 2022