More than 15 months into the war, Russian attacks against Ukraine’s nuclear plants have yet to release any radiation. As the likelihood of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant reopening quickly declines and Putin’s desire to distract the world from his declining political and military standing increases,...
Once again, Putin is rattling Russia’s nuclear sabers. This time, it’s by threatening Poland and Ukraine with the deployment of nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. In response, there’s been plenty of hand ringing. What has yet to happen, however, is any serious effort to unplug...
As the year comes to an end, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Rafael Grossi is working to secure Ukraine’s nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia against further military assaults. His aim in shuttling between Kyiv and Moscow is to get Putin and Zelenskyy to agree to...
Now that Ukraine has taken Kherson, some experts fear Putin might feel cornered and yet resort to using nuclear weapons. Whether Putin will, of course, is uncertain. What isn’t, and what’s deeply weird in light of this worry, is that the United States continues to...
As the war in Ukraine drags on, daily developments at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant explode on our Google News screens. Last week, external power needed to prevent a core meltdown at the plant was cut off repeatedly, forcing reliance on emergency diesel generators. Meanwhile, Russians...
Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Biden opined that the risk of nuclear Armageddon is the highest it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. His quip on the Ukraine war generated a flood of punditry. Earlier this week,...
As the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) prepares to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, we should be under no illusions: nothing it can do to check the plant’s safety can reduce the risks of it or other nuclear plants being hit in war. Those odds...
Late last week, the United States supported calls to create a demilitarized zone around the embattled Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear site. The State Department characterized fighting there as “dangerous and irresponsible.” What no U.S. official has yet said, however, is that the United States would not mount such...
When Russia first attacked the Ukrainian nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia in March, U.S. officials slammed Moscow for being reckless. Yet, when Russia announced earlier this month that it would hold a referendum that would effectively make the plant Russian property, U.S. officials were silent. Foggy...
Although it’s generally assumed that what matters most in determining Washington’s policies toward India and Pakistan is how China treats them, there is another way to view South Asia and that is how India and Pakistan relate strategically with Russia. How deep might Moscow’s military...
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