there is no let up in fighting. on the streets of kharkiv, a grim warning of what is to come if the conflict doesn t stop. russian troops roll in, but the ukrainian defence forces fight on. putin takes his next move. the world stops. war in ukraine and now russia s nuclear forces on special alert. russian state tv announce our submarines alone are capable of launching more than 500 nuclear warheads guaranteed to destroy america and all of nato. so what is this, brinkmanship? something more or something less? empty threats? but i think after the dramatic
president putin has raised the spectre of the use of nuclear weapons, saying he s putting russia s nuclear forces on high alert. let s take a moment to look at the history of the nuclear arms race. with one announcement, vladimir putin left the world asking, would he? i m ordering the minister of defense and the chief of the general staff to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world, and putin wouldn t be the first leader to give the order. in 1945, the us dropped two nuclear weapons onjapan. they effectively ended the second world war and killed over 100,000 people in 1949. the soviet union tested a bomb at this test site in what is now kazakhstan, then in 1962. the cuban missile crisis almost brought nuclear war between the us and russia, and having come so close in 1968, the world agreed a new arrangement the nuclear non proliferation treaty. 191 countries are
and sent this report. from the kremlin, a pointed message to the west. don t push russia. president putin summoned his military chiefs and gave them an order. translation: top officials of leading nato countries i are making aggressive statements about our country. therefore, i am ordering the minister of defence and the chief of the general staff to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. would putin really use them? he practised a week ago, overseeing exercises of russia s strategic deterrence forces. typically unsubtle hints to america and nato not to stand in his way over ukraine. today s special alert, more presidential muscle flexing.
and the chief of the general staff to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. would putin really use them? he practised a week ago, overseeing exercises of russian strategic deterrence forces. typically unsubtle hints to america and nato not to stand in his way over ukraine. today s special alert, more presidential muscle flexing. across from the kremlin, muscovites gathered on a bridge to remember boris nemtsov, the putin critic gunned down right here seven years ago. for vladimir, this was a day for remembering a friend and condemning the war. this is not russia s war, not a war by the russian people or ukrainian people, this is yet another military adventure, military crime
president putin has raised the spectre of the use of nuclear weapons, saying he s putting russia s nuclear forces on high alert. let s take a moment to look at the history of the nuclear arms race. with one announcement, vladimir putin left the world asking, would he? i m ordering the minister of defence and the chief of the general staff to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world, and putin wouldn t be the first leader to give the order. in 1945, the us dropped two nuclear weapons onjapan. they effectively ended the second world war and killed over 100,000 people in 1949. the soviet union tested a bomb at this test site in what is now kazakhstan, then in 1962. the cuban missile crisis almost brought nuclear war between the us and russia,