Will Putin go nuclear? An updated timeline of expert comments

Image caption: An artist’s rendition of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nuclear posture. Photo credit: kremlin.ru, changes made, CC BY 3.0. Article by Susan D’Agostino and François Diaz-Maurin. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – June 6, 2022.

“The risk of global nuclear war has practically disappeared,” Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, said in his 1991 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, even though Russia and the United States retained their massive nuclear arsenals. Three decades later, nine countries are members of the nuclear club […]

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