Will Russia’s Vladimir Putin go nuclear?

The Take seems to be into the chance of Russia utilizing nuclear weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) meets troopers throughout a go to at a navy coaching centre of the Western Navy District for mobilised reservists, exterior the city of Ryazan on October 20, 2022 [Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP]

With Vladimir Putin’s latest warning that Russia will use “all out there means” at his disposal to defend his nation, there was elevated chatter in regards to the Russian president going to make use of nuclear weapons. However simply how doubtless is that, and what does it imply to start out a nuclear battle in 2022?

On this episode: 

• Alex Gatopoulos (@alexgatopoulos), Al Jazeera defence editor
• Gerhard Mangott (@gerhard_mangott), professor of Worldwide Relations, College of Innsbruck

Episode credit:

This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra (lead producer) with Chloe Okay. Li, Ruby Zaman, Negin Owliaei, Amy Walters, Alexandra Locke, and our host, Halla Mohieddeen. Ruby Zaman fact-checked this episode. 

Our manufacturing group contains Chloe Okay. Li, Alexandra Locke, Ashish Malhotra, Negin Owliaei, Amy Walters, and Ruby Zaman. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Tim St. Clair blended this episode. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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