The Cold War deterrence laws still work. But it remains, just like then, a blood link

I felt a slight shudder when the Russian leader Putin already on day 4 of the invasion of Ukraine threatened with the ultimate weapon, the nuclear weapon, the destroyer of worlds in the words of one of his inventors. It won’t be, it crossed my mind. We were hardly concerned with the nuclear danger, which seemed to be contained, and then suddenly, while we were no longer aware of it, the specter of the eighties is back: a nuclear war in Europe. A wry twist of fate.

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