We are coming up against the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A lot of experts believe that we are closer to the use of a nuclear weapon in warfare now than we have been at any time since that crisis. One primarily it is because of Russia's incursion into Ukraine which breaks all international norms and then on top of that President Putin really threatening the use of nuclear weapons in a way we haven't ever seen before. But right now like we just live in a very unstable moment and no one knows what will come next or exactly how we should respond.
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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