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Analysing nuclear tensions as Biden warns that Putin is not bluffing

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Are You Concerned That Vladimir Putin Will Launch Strategic Nuclear Weapons?

Matthew Harry is director of proliferation and nuclear policy programme at the Royal United Services Institute. On Thursday, President Joe Biden warned that risk of nuclear Armageddon was at its highest level since 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Do you agree with this? No, I don't think he's saying we're on a path that Armageddon has been put in place for us to deal with," says Mr Harry. "Once you use a nuclear weapon, the course of what happens next is out of your hands"

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