The threat from nuclear weapons never went away with the end of the Cold War. The problem now is that Putin has declared that Russia is in an existential struggle with the West. So, you know, what is old is new again.
Vladimir Putin keeps threatening to use smaller nuclear weapons to win his war. Author J. Peter Scoblic says “there’s no such thing as small nukes.”
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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