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 by AFP Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2022
US President Joe Biden is warning his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin against using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the wake of serious losses in his war in Ukraine. "Don't. Don't. Don't," Biden said, in an excerpt from an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" aired Friday evening. Biden was responding to an interviewer's question about the possibility of Putin, whose army is incurring heavy losses in the Ukraine counteroffensive this month, resorting to chemical or tactical nuclear weapons. "You would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II," Biden said. "They will become more of a pariah in the world, more than they have ever been," the US leader added. Ukraine has recaptured swaths of territory in the east from occupying Russian forces in recent weeks, boosted by heavy weapons supplied by Western allies. And Moscow is facing fresh outrage from the West after the discovery of a mass grave outside the formerly Russian-occupied city of Izyum, where, Kyiv officials say, almost all of the exhumed bodies showed signs of torture. But Putin remained steadfast, saying his war against Russia's Western-leaning neighbor was proceeding according to plan. "The plan is not subject to adjustment," Putin said Friday. "Our offensive operations in Donbas itself do not stop. They are going at a slow pace... The Russian army is occupying newer and newer territories."
Jung Jae Kwon: Questioning the nuclear umbrella Boston MA (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Many of America's allies have little faith that huddling under America's nuclear umbrella will keep them safe. "The conventional wisdom has been that the threat of nuclear retaliation by the U.S. is enough to defend our junior non-nuclear allies," says Jung Jae Kwon, a political science doctoral student at MIT. "But this threat is not as credible as is often believed, and the allies do not simply want to depend on it for their security." Kwon has been researching defense strategies of American cli ... read more
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