Nuclear Survivalist

The facility, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, was forcibly taken by Russian troops in the early days of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.

… and even abstractly threaten nuclear war,” writes Alexander Baunov, a Russian analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile blasted a crater close to a nuclear power … Throughout the war, Russia has targeted Ukraine’s electricity …

The country will launch a preemptive nuclear attack if it detects signs another country is preparing to attack it—a break from previous policy.

“It will not provoke a nuclear war, because we will use operative – not strategic – nuclear weapons on Kalibrs, Iskanders, and bombs on planes.”.

During the Cold War, even the threat of using nuclear weapons was seen as a violation of understandings between the two superpowers.

In a move that could dramatically escalate the war, Russia pushed ahead with … victory or the eve of nuclear war,” Simonyan wrote on Twitter.

Biden to urge “respect for the core principles of the international order” as Russia’s war on Ukraine drives a “crisis in confidence” in the U.N. …

Russia, too, has devised new nuclear delivery systems, with more on the way, and has essentially threatened nuclear war, apparently to limit American …

Is Putin, his back to the wall, likely to carry out an attack that would risk turning Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, into a nuclear wasteland?