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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuclear threat

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is It Puten's Decision?

Do we know how the russian ordering of nuclear weapons works? Ragt is it like the us, where there are these formal rules surrounding the way that the weapons are used. Or is it sort of even simpler, like vladimir puten pushes the button? So we know a little bit about the russian process, ultimately, the decision is vested in the president. It's puten's call. There is some language about puten working with the military to form the order. And we don't know whether that they have a right to have opinions, or whether they're just there tok type up the order as it is given. That's one of those set ups that

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