Russia has ICBMs with nuclear warheads. This allows the country to attack the United States directly.
(Photo: dpa)
Geneva Monday, January 3, 2022: “We reaffirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be waged,” write the five official nuclear-armed powers in unison. They present a communiqué to the public that raises hopes. Hopes that the leaders of Russia, the US, China, France and the UK could ban nuclear warheads. Hopes for a “world without nuclear weapons”.
Three months later, the document looks like it is from another world. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine and his statements about possible nuclear strikes are a crucial test for the international system of nuclear arms control and non-proliferation.
“A new nuclear arms race is a real possibility,” warns Sarah Bidgood, director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California. The West must now find answers to Russia’s provocations “without pushing the world closer to the nuclear abyss”.
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