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

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons don't have the wide scale catastrophic quences a herotumo bomb equivalent on ukraine would, by its nature, lead to a degree of damage. I do think that there are ways in which this conflict could escallate to nuclear weapons. So i'm not sanguine about the situation. I worry about it, and i think we should be making good decisions that limit those pathways. But i just, i don't think we're in a situation at the moment where nuclear weapons could deliver vladimir putin a victory on the battle field. That is, conventional army can't. And so it leads you to the second question, which is, what

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