The topic this time is “Escalation Vortex: Nuclear Risks in the Russia-Ukraine War” along with the contents of National Interest dated March 15.
Two recent Ploughshares Fund podcasts explore the risks of nuclear escalation between Russia and the United States.
President Vladimir Putin’s recent order to put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert sparked panic that the situation in Ukraine could go nuclear.
Russia and the United States have the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, so the notion that President Putin would even consider using nuclear weapons in Ukraine is unsettling.
In the past ten days, Ploughshares Fund has produced two timely podcast episodes on the crisis in Ukraine.
In the first, Ploughshares President Dr. Emma Belcher spoke with Dr. Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, a professor at the University of Oslo and a member of the Oslo Nuclear Project, on how this crisis can escalate into nuclear warfare.
In the second, host Tom Collina broke down the meaning of Russia’s raised nuclear alert level with Jon Wolfsthal, Global Zero’s Senior Advisor.
What exactly does the increased nuclear alert level mean?
