Nuclear fears mount as Ukraine crisis deepens - POLITICO

It’s a concern shared by current and former nuclear security officials who usually don’t agree on much — from disarmament advocates to nuclear hawks.

A primary concern, according to Geller and others, is Russia’s arsenal of thousands of battlefield nuclear weapons, which are central to its military strategy. There’s also concern among Russian nuclear experts about the potential that the Ukraine crisis could escalate, according to former U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt, who negotiated arms control treaties with the Soviet Union.

Russia has also been nuclear saber-rattling in recent days, threatening that if NATO doesn’t meet its demands for halting the alliance’s expansion east“What we should be worried about is their doctrine and their 4,000 non-strategic nuclear weapons,” the former official added. But even he says it's conceivable that one or both sides could dangerously miscalculate. For example, an accidental clash between Russian and NATO aircraft or warships, he said, “may trigger direct confrontation and then it could roll."

Also looming over the crisis is Russia’s history of using cyber-attacks as a key element of its military strategy, which could potentially disrupt or confuse nuclear command and control systems.

What a waste of lives and taxpayers money. Russia is in such great shape that the people there are ok with this. Oh forgot you can’t say anything against Putin or your dead!!

BryanDBender It was a nice 30 year break from the whole 'sword over every man woman and child' thing but it was bound to come back sooner or later, if it wasn't Russia, it was China. But war never changes.

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BryanDBender “To prepare for nuclear war, be sure to wear your mask, be vaxxed and boosted”

Remember when trump was supposed to start a nuclear war on twitter?How did that shit turned out,democrats? :D

Orange man bad though

Those 'experts' are not experts in anything.

nonsense

Ah yes doing the MIC bidding.

Oh-My-GodOmniabsolute=Universe's-Gravity: Hence, why is 🇺🇸USA involved with RUSSIA 🇷🇺 & 🇺🇦Ukraine Civil-War? Albeit, the 🇺🇸USA has lots Civil-Wars of IT'S own. Thus if the 🇺🇸USA falls for this, IT will fall for anything!$!$

when your experts on ~accidental~ nuclear war are the heritage foundation 🥴

As if. Irresponsible & goofy speculation. I mean duh, US & RU are nuclear powers, doesn’t mean they’re gonna trip over THE button. Putin overplayed his hand and is just trying to seem tough because he is losing his footing. He ain’t sh*t.

Fear mongers

As a child of the 40’s-50’s I’ve tired of Friday air raid siren tests, diving under desks, marching to my schools dank basement & visualizing my incineration with no consideration. So, let’s get in Putin’s face. With Russian engineering prowess, joke, their nukes probably won’t.

Tell the experts to go shove it where the sun doesn't shine.

Doubtful

That’s Be the fastest way to have US rifles turn around.

More Politico clickbait...

Yea but the mean tweets are gone

LetsGoBrandon ImpeachBiden

I don't understand what purpose this warning from officials and experts will serve. It will neither stop something which is destined to happen nor start something which is not destined to happen.

And yet many republicans continue to side with Russia. Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall and invade

Warmongers would love that.

lookner

That explains why the Dow & Nasdaq futures are doing so well tonight.stockmarkets StockMarket stocks BidenBorderCrisis Biden Bidenflation

This is wrong

Nuclear exchange. How bad can that be.

Ok, will bite ... If ruskies use battlefield tactical nukes, will be the pariah of the world (came up before this week); One would hope putin is shrewd enough to realize this, not sure if he is sane enough, but the man is shrewd; Not even his partnership with Xi could save him

This is gaslighting at its worse.

That will be different. Maybe Kim Jong-un will join in. He likes things that go boom.

I can tell you they're not gonna nuke Ukraine, it wouldn't be too good to nuke a country you wanna take over and then live in. you still can't live in Pripyat, settle yourselves.

Cyber, probably. Nuclear, no.

Yes, because all the nukes of the US and Russia that remain will, all by themselves and *without* human interaction, get all riled up and rumbly in their silos and on launch points, and send the world into a cascade of devastation we narrowly missed out on in 1962.

Your experts are flawed, it would be conventional warfare, there is no doubt nuclear weapons would be strategically 'placed' but it would never come to that because we wouldn't be invading Russia, heritage Foundation full of warhawk fear mongers..

“Inadvertently trigger” as if humans don’t have to decide to launch nukes

'Mutually assured destruction' is what has prevent nuclear war for the past 70 years.

Fear Porn

Great

Oh stop… nothing is going to happen.

Something weird is gong on. Biden hyping up a Ukrainian invasion that all the actors in Europe say isn’t happening. This piece only adding to hysteria.

Scaremongering !

What cities are Russian nukes pointed at

But at least the mean tweets have stopped

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