The New Nuclear Age by Ankit Panda: Could ‘growing loose talk’ lead to the ultimate disaster?

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The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon Author : Ankit Panda ISBN-13 : 978-1509557462 Publisher : Polity Press Guideline Price : £25 In June 2023, as the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that Russian president Vladimir Putin had launched a year earlier was getting bogged down, one of Russia’s leading political scientists proposed a solution. Sergei Karaganov said Putin should make clear to the western powers that if they continued to arm and fund Kyiv, Moscow would use nuclear weapons against Nato member states. Karaganov, a former adviser to Putin who remains close to the Kremlin, argued that the...