Ukraine and the Threat of Nuclear War February 8, 2022

Ira Helfand, MD, PSR Board Member | The Nation

[If] the conflict spread beyond Ukraine’s borders and NATO became involved in the fighting, this would become a major war between nuclear-armed forces with the very real danger that nuclear weapons would be used—and the public debate about this crisis is utterly lacking in discussion of this terrible threat.

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