Don’t discount potential for Ukraine-Russia tensions to go nuclear

Because it feels isolated, Ukraine has resumed public debates around its 1990s decision to disarm. Some Ukrainian officials and citizens have cited their denied NATO membership and continual border tensions as reasons to rearm themselves with nukes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pictured in Washington, D.C., in August 2021. The conflict at the Ukrainian border is likely to change the current nuclear order. And what was understood as a concern of the past, once more threatens our future, writes Julie Clark. NASA photograph by Bill Ingalls

Opinion

BY JULIE CLARK

February 21, 2022

Earlier this month, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that “things could go crazy quickly” if Russia invades Ukraine. Tensions last peaked in 2014 with the annexation of

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