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60 years after Cuba crisis, nuclear war suddenly thinkable again

60 years after Cuba crisis, nuclear war suddenly thinkable again

  • With Russian President Vladimir Putin brandishing the nuclear option in Ukraine, the threat has come roaring back
  • Sixty years ago, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s motives, while broad, were less rigid than Putin’s
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Special Ukraine’s fate puts a big question mark over nuclear disarmament efforts

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Bin Laden ‘deliberately’ wanted to tarnish Saudi-US relations: Western intelligence

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