: Ukraine conflict has revived Cold War fears of nuclear weapons. Here’s why Putin won’t use them #IndiaNEWS The prospect of a nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States seemed, until

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Ukraine conflict has revived Cold War fears of nuclear weapons. Here’s why Putin won’t use them #IndiaNEWS
The prospect of a nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States seemed, until recently, to have ended with the Cold War. Threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin to use the weapons to keep the North Atlantic Treaty Organization out of the Ukraine conflict have revived those decades-old fears.The threats come amid the fraying of nuclear arms control agreements between the two nuclear superpowers that had stabilised strategic relations for decades.As an arms control expert, I see the war in Ukraine as an added strain but not a fatal blow to the system that has helped to keep the world from nuclear devastation. That system has evolved over decades and allows US and Russian officials to gauge how close the other side is to launch an attack.Keeping an eyeArms control treaties rely on each of the nuclear superpowers sharing information about deployed delivery systems – missiles or bombers that could be used to deliver nuclear warheads – and to permit the other side to verify these claims. The treaties usually include numerical limits on weapons, and implementation of a treaty typically begins with baseline declarations by each side of numbers and locations of weapons. Numbers are updated annually. The two sides also regularly notify each other of significant changes to...Read more

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