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War in Ukraine: the return of nuclear power in the geopolitical discourse

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with award-winning young cultural professionals via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 25, 2022. AP - Mikhail Klimentyev

By: Marie-France Chatin Follow

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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has brandished the threat of nuclear weapons.

A move upmarket on the part of Moscow which marks in a certain way the return of this armament in the geopolitical discourse.

While during the Cold War nuclear weapons were destined not to be used, and since the temptation was great to consider nuclear weapons and the strategy of deterrence as vestiges of a bygone past, look at the place of the fact nuclear power in strategic balances and how brandishing nuclear weapons changes the situation regionally or globally.  

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Guests:  

  • Admiral Jean-Louis Lozier,

    advisor to IFRI

  • Benjamin Hautecouverture

    , historian and political scientist.

    Senior researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research. 

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  • Vladimir Poutine

  • Nuclear

  • Ukraine

  • Russia

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