U.S., Russia Again Worry of Nuclear War 60 Years After Cuban Missile Crisis
"If the Cuban missile crisis has taught us anything, it is the value of reducing nuclear risk, not brandishing it," a White House spokesperson told Newsweek.
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"If the Cuban missile crisis has taught us anything, it is the value of reducing nuclear risk, not brandishing it," a White House spokesperson told Newsweek.
"Plan A" is a hypothetical yet eerily plausible scenario imagined by nuclear weapons experts. It shows 91 million deaths and injuries in hours.
As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues to escalate, the demon of nuclear weapons seems to be still hovering around the white house in Reykjavik as the 1986 summit, making strange noises.
This is an emergency. Right now, we’re closer to a cataclysmic nuclear war than at any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. One assessment - Norman Solomon for Antiwar.com Original
Ukraine war shows us that old nuclear strategies won't keep Americans safe as rocket artillery, drones and savvy change battlefields. Biden must wake up.