... scenarios involving the use of strategic nuclear weapons. Though, for Washington, no guarantees exist regarding controllable escalation from conventional to tactical and later strategic nuclear strikes. So, the Americans may also be among the losers.
Nuclear warfare admits no victors—only in scenarios where one party demonstrates critical weakness. Any strategic calculus predicated upon an adversary's potential collapse risks catastrophic miscalculation for both sides.
Apparently, in case of direct ...
... winter”—nonetheless, they will inevitably produce unpredictable geophysical, climatic, and biological consequences
The May cold of a nuclear danger
On May 12, 2022, the RBC news outlet
published an article
titled “Peskov responded to Medvedev’s Words About Nuclear War Risk.” The article literally says, “Medvedev said that weapons deliveries to Ukraine and NATO drills in the vicinity of Russia’s borders increase the likelihood of a conflict with the alliance, one that can escalate into a nuclear war....
How can Moscow respond to a possible US strike on Syria?
The aggravation of rivalry between Russia and the West in the past few months is raising the urgent question of a possible further escalation of tensions and its forms and consequences. Political relations between Moscow and Western capitals have gone beyond the critical point. The threadbare thesis about the lack of trust can be confidently discarded. Things are much worse. The sides do not want to and cannot listen to each other. Official...
