![]() ![]() PUTIN : Top officials of leading NATO's countries are making aggressive statements about our country. Three days later, he invaded Ukraine, and then on February 27th, he made his threat explicit. We are ready for any outcome.ĬHAKRABARTI: Putin was talking about nuclear weapons. VLADIMIR PUTIN : Whoever would try to stop us and further create threats to our country, to our people, should know that Russia's response will be immediate and lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: On February 21st, just days before Russian President Vladimir Putin began his attack on Ukraine, Putin gave a speech, warning NATO against interfering. ( Transcript: Highlights From The Show's Open Weiner, visiting researcher at Princeton’s Science and Global Security Lab. Pavel Podvig, senior researcher in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Program at United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. ![]() Why do we fail to consider the danger? Also Featured ( Ira Helfand, former president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Author of the article Ukraine and the Threat of Nuclear War. Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, director of the Oslo Nuclear Project at the University of Oslo. ![]() Matthew Bunn, professor of the practice of energy, national security and foreign policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Where are the weapons, how are they controlled and what could trigger a launch? Guests Today, On Point: Russia, and the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal. "Nuclear weapons - for as long as they continue to exist - should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war." It's a move that alarmed the world, and seems to fly in the face of that statement, which also says: “ A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”īut, one month later, Russian troops invaded Ukraine. On January 3rd of this year, the world's five largest nuclear powers, including Russia, issued the following joint statement: ![]()
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