After several months of uncertainty, Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday February 21 the suspension by Russia of its participation in the New Start agreement on nuclear disarmament. He also called on the Russian authorities to stand “ready for nuclear weapons testing” if Washington realizes it first. Unsurprising announcements as the atomic threat has been agitated since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
The invasion of Ukraine, terrifying advertisement for nuclear weapons
As of February 24, 2022, the Russian president promises those who would oppose the Russian invasion, “consequences you have never known before”. Aggressive use of nuclear deterrence to protect against Western intervention. For Jean-Marie Collin, director of ICAN France (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), a campaign for nuclear disarmament who received the 2017 Nobel Prize, the Russian invasion is proof that “Nuclear weapons do not bring peace but on the contrary allow war”.
Putin, cornered, will he choose the nuclear option?
After a year of war in Ukraine, has the nuclear risk increased?
When a nuclear power has been at war for a year and the threats are multiplying through speeches, exercises and UK bombing simulations for example, it is obvious that the risk of voluntary or involuntary use of a nuclear weapon is greater. Since, on January 24 of
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