How the Ukraine war could go nuclear
Posted on AllSides March 24th, 2022
From The Left
Not since the Cold War has the specter of nuclear war hung so heavily over a president’s crisis diplomacy.
As President Joe Biden meets with fellow NATO leaders, calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine are growing more urgent than ever — to alleviate the widespread human suffering but also to dial back what veterans of nuclear planning consider an alarming potential for it to spiral into a clash of atomic superpowers.
The nuclear brinkmanship from Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent weeks is unprecedented: He ordered a snap nuclear war...