Emerging Risks

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On April 15, Zelensky announced that the world should “be ready” for the possibility that Putin will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Whether a gaffe or a Freudian slip, Biden’s call for a regime change in Russia, in the middle of an active armed conflict, checked off Moscow’s “existential threat” requirement for the use of nuclear weapons. Now finding himself cornered in an unwinnable position, Putin is invoking the concepts of “total war” and an “existential threat” to keep the US and NATO out of the conflict.

Ukraine has warned that Russia plans to attack more countries and expand its war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine's neighbor Moldova sho...

The likelihood of Russian President Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine is growing, local experts say. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “all of the countries of the world” should prepare for the possibility of tactical nuclear weapons on CNN earlier this week. Tactical nuclear weapons are typically described as smaller nuclear weapons that can be used in a…

A leading Kremlin military figure claims Moscow wants to create a corridor to a disputed region of Moldova claimed by Russian separatists.

The comments from Pentagon press secretary John Kirby came just days after TV analysts spoke about the Russian military testing a nuclear-capable missile.

Pro-Putin journalist Vladimir Solovyev discussed the war in Ukraine entering "a new stage."

The Russian military now says the official plan is to create a land corridor all the way along Ukraine’s coast to Moldova, where another border is under threat.

The prominent former editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a highly popular state-run Chinese media outlet, published a commentary on Saturday urging Chinese citizens to “prepare for a military struggle” in the near future. The commentary, written by journalist Hu Xijin, came after U.S. senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and six other U.S. officials visited Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, last Thursday. The visit was strongly denounced by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who warned that China is “firmly opposed to any form of official exchange between the U.S. and Taiwan.”

Vladimir Putin retains overall favorability with 86 percent of his own citizens but only 4 percent of Americans expressed at least somewhat favorable views of the Russian leader.

Since Russia’s war began, Putin-watchers have become increasingly concerned about nuclear weapons.

Putin boasts new intercontinental ballistic weapon will provide rivals with ‘food for thought’

Fortune reported in early March that 30,000 Belgians went to pharmacies to retrieve iodine tables, and in Finland there was a hundredfold increase in demand for this mitigator for thyroid cancer th…

For decades, China maintained a relatively small nuclear force, but according to current U.S. intelligence estimates, that arsenal is now on track to nearly quadruple, to 1,000 weapons, by 2030, ...

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Experts worry Russian President Vladimir Putin may turn to using nuclear weapons as the war on Ukraine continues on.

Nina Khrushcheva said she fears Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually deploy tactical nuclear weapons to claim victory in Ukraine.

DUBAI (Reuters)—Iran's armed forces will target Israel's heart if it makes "the slightest move" against the Islamic Republic, President Ebrahim Raisi told a military parade on Monday, amid stalled talks between Tehran and world powers to revive a 2015 nuclear pact.

It’s good we’re ignoring Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands to stop aiding Ukraine. But we should grasp what that might lead to.

Vladimir Putin has raised the spectre of a nuclear war in Europe. Here's what we know and what might happen next

The war in Ukraine has started. How did Russia build its narrative and what are Russians being told about this conflict?

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the West’s assumptions about the world became unsustainable.

Opinion | As the situation becomes more volatile and less predictable, is escalation the only way forward for a weakened Putin?

The West’s focus needs to be on saving Ukraine and ending a war that has the potential to get horribly out of hand. There will be plenty of time for punishment later.

War is happening right now in Europe, but every actor in the area can cause a butterfly-effect scenario for Israel and its neighbors.

In the simulation we mapped out, not only does NATO get sucked in unintentionally, but Russia releases nuclear weapons in its desperation.

The West, in particular NATO and the US, are already at war with Russia. Our leaders just don’t know it or are in denial.

Vladimir Putin has dramatically escalated threats against the West, saying devastating economic sanctions are ‘akin to a declaration of war’, as the US and Poland work on plans to deploy warplanes over Ukraine’s besieged cities.

While accidental wars are rare, they do happen. Here are five ways that the war in Ukraine could escalate to conflict between Russia and NATO.

The word “war” is presently banned in the official Russian discourse on Ukraine, but in fact the “special military operation,” launched on President Vladimir Putin’s order in the early morning hours of February 24, includes several wars fought in different domains. The massive re-invasion of Ukraine constitutes clearly the most kinetic aspect; however, at the highest level, Putin imagines he …