DW Europe In Concert - Jasmin Tabatabai Germany October 15, 2017
But lets come back to the purpose of Nuclear Weapons serve Nuclear Powers have to date never attacked each other the aim of deterrence is to prevent these weapons from being used and thats worked so far hasnt it. Weve been lucky so far. But weve had some close calls. There were many situations also during the cold war when Nuclear Weapons were almost deployed. I remember one example russian duty officer Stanislav Petroff who died recently was monitoring Early Warning satellites over the u. S. When the alarms went off. It looked like a Nuclear First strike by the americans. If there were immedi...