For decades, children in the United States and the USSR have been trained in how to react to a nuclear attack. A year after the Russian invasion in Ukraine, is this danger back for new generations?
In the wake of his offensive, Vladimir Putin announced the alerting of his army’s nuclear “deterrent force”. A “dangerous”, “irresponsible” announcement and an “unacceptable” escalation, hammered Washington in response.
Although there have been no signs of a Russian nuclear mobilization, a group of scientists announced in January in the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” that the doomsday clock now reads 90 seconds to midnight. , approaching the fateful hour that scientists hope will never be reached.
According to the researcher specializing in weapons of mass destruction Pavel Podvig, the threats from Russia could paradoxically have made the world a little safer, by reminding new generations of the existence of the danger posed by atomic weapons.
The researcher also insists on the strong reaction of rejection of the world leaders to the declarations on the nuclear of Moscow, in particular that of the allies of Russia, India and China. These answers reinforced the idea that nuclear threats are taboo.