Is the U.S. now closer to nuclear war than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962? Experts largely agreed with Biden’s warning.
ceremony in which Putin moved to annex four regions of Ukraine into Russia, Putin said Russia would "protect our land using all our forces and means at our disposal." The annexations followed elections that international observers widely derided as shams.
Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, relations between the U.S. and Russia had soured, potentially putting the two nations on a collision course, said Lynn Rusten, vice president of the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Nuclear Policy Program. During the Obama administration, Rusten served as the senior director for arms control and nonproliferation on the White House National Security Council.
"Lack of such crises reflected the stabilization of the cold war and the recognition by all sensible policymakers on both sides that it’s in neither side’s interest to raise the risk of mutual annihilation," Betts said.
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