It has surprised and worried me that almost none of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Ukrainian crisis has mentioned the nuclear dimension to the risk. If the West feels (as it currently does) that Russia is solely to blame, and Russia feels (as it currently does) that the West is solely to blame, neither one is likely to back down. Add in the US’s overwhelming conventional military superiority and Russia’s 8,000 nuclear weapons, and you have the potential for nuclear threats — and therefore for nuclear use.
I’m not saying a repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis is likely, but …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
