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NUCLEAR ISSUES

Europe needs France to get its nuclear act together in 2023 by Gavin Maguire. REUTERS, 2/1/2023.
A steep drop in France’s nuclear power output in 2022 exacerbated Europe’s power crisis by forcing French utilities to flip from net power exporters to importers just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine snarled energy markets across the continent.

Consequences of the War in Ukraine: The End and Beyond by Brian Michael Jenkins. The RAND Corporation, March 8, 2023.
We don’t know yet know how the war in Ukraine may end. Despite heavy casualties, neither side is visibly falling apart or appears ready to back down. Both sides are digging in, but as the spring mud dries and the ground hardens, new offensives can be expected.

Putin’s Hollow Nuclear Threat by Paul D. Shinkman. U.S. News, February 24, 2023.
Vladimir Putin understands the effects of employing the most destructive weapons in his arsenal, officials and analysts say – ‘He is many things, but he is not suicidal.’

The Persistent Threat of Nuclear Crises Among China, India, and Pakistan by Daniel Markey. The United States Institute of Peace, February 1, 2023.
Southern Asia’s strategic stability is getting harder to manage because of geopolitical changes and evolving military technologies.

We Must Prevent a New Nuclear Arms Race by Daryl Kimball and Frank von Hippel. Scientific American, March 1, 2023.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calamitous invasion of Ukraine has killed at least tens of thousands, displaced millions, and disrupted countless lives around the globe. Putin’s implied threats to use nuclear weapons against any who would interfere have also raised fears of a nuclear conflict in ways not seen since the end of the cold war.