We Are Returning To A Time When Nuclear Threats Were The Norm

Ivo Daalder, Politico: The deteriorating nuclear order  

We’re returning to a time when nuclear threats were the norm — and the world flirted with Armageddon. 

“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” 

So said the leaders of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States for the very first time, just five months ago. Today, however, the prospect of nuclear weapons use is perhaps greater than any time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. 

Just weeks after co-signing the joint statement on preventing nuclear war, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war of aggression against a neighbor that had given up its nuclear weapons in return for Russia’s explicit assurance “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine [and] refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity and political independence of Ukraine.”  

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WNU Editor: I grew up during the Cold War. I am shaking my head to see what I thought was an era that had passed roaring back with threats of nuclear war and Armageddon.