The US and its NATO allies are on high alert over the possibility of Russia using a nuclear weapon. Moscow, however, has dismissed the claims of a nuclear threat as “rhetoric.” The World’s host Carolyn Beeler spoke with Joe Cirincione, a national security analyst, about the kind of a nuclear weapon that could be used and the consequences that could ensue.
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