Will Russia use nuclear weapons?
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It's 224 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. We have received many questions and comments in relation to the nuclear threats that President Vladimir Putin has been issuing. The horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made the whole world afraid of the atomic bomb, even those who might launch one. In 1961, my London-born mother wrote to Nikita Khrushchev at the Kremlin to thank him for saving the world from probable nuclear war. And then we've got this listener wondering how President Putin's nuclear threats connect to the illegal annexations of those four regions of Ukraine.
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