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illustration of chess pieces made of flags of the nine nuclear weapons states falling over with Ukrainian flag in the background

Has the Russia-Ukraine war blown up the global nuclear order?

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Siegfried Hecker (second from right) visits the secret Russian nuclear city of Sarov in February 1992. Credit: screen grab from Stanford University "Doomed to Cooperate" video, available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ZpFLO4hmE&t=1s

Siegfried Hecker: Putin has destroyed the world nuclear order. How should the democracies respond?

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons