What Kim Jong Un really wants
North Korea’s leader has started his second decade in power with a slew of missile tests and revealed his young…
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The Policy Ask with Patricia Lewis: “Weapons treaties have been destroyed through political posturing”
The director of the international security programme at Chatham House on prohibiting nuclear weapons, preparing for cyberattacks and the character…
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Britain after a nuclear attack: the BBC film that shocked a generation – Audio Long Reads
Inspired by the leaked Protect and Survive films, in 1984 a BBC team set out to create a relentlessly accurate…
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Vladimir Putin counts on “dirty bombs” and dipping temperatures in Ukraine
The Russian president has relied on coercive pressures to deliver the political victories that he has failed to achieve by…
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Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats must not deter the West
The war will end when Moscow has to come to terms with its failure.
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Will Putin go nuclear?
Giving in to the Russian president’s blackmail will make nuclear war more, not less, likely.
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Joe Biden is king of the gaffe, but we should take “Armageddon” seriously
His latest warning about nuclear war is startlingly frank, but clear.
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What is the meaning of North Korea’s nuclear opportunism?
With the West distracted by the war in Ukraine, Kim Jong Un may have decided now is the time to…
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How should the US respond to a Russian nuclear attack?
We are entering the most dangerous nuclear crisis since the 1980s.
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The forgotten nuclear threat of North Korea
Kim Jong Un has fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
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A “strategic nuclear exchange” would offer Putin zero military gains
Threats of “battlefield” warheads are alarming, but an actual deployment would cause Russia major setbacks – both tactical and practical.
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Is Putin really willing to go nuclear?
The tone and tempo of threats from the Kremlin has escalated amid claims that Russia is fighting a wider war.
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Putin’s war could be the undoing of Nicola Sturgeon
As Nato fortifies to counter the Russian threat, the case against Trident – and for Scottish independence – is looking…
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Would Vladimir Putin use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine?
As the war approaches Nato’s borders military officials on both sides will have to communicate closely.
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